May 11 1994
From The Space Library
NASA announced that as a result of tests it conducted jointly with McDonnell Douglas and the U.S. Army, converting a small area of a helicopter main rotor blade into a controllable flap reduced by 40 percent the strength of the sound from "blade slap." (NASA Release 94-74; W Post, May 12/94; Daily Press, Jun 13/94)
The new chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, David Obey, Democrat from Wisconsin, divided a $540 billion Federal spending budget in such a way that NASA had a good chance of getting 98 percent of the funds it requested for FY 1995. Efforts to kill the International Space Station project on the House floor remained likely. (0 Sen Star, May 12/94; Fla Today, May 12/94; H Chron, May 13/94; H Post, May 13/94; W Post, May 13/94; SP News, May 16/94)
The Technical and Business Exhibition and Symposium (TABES) held a two-day session in Huntsville, Alabama. The five panelists at the opening session were Ben Bova, ex-president of the National Space Society; John Pike, space policy director for the Federation of American Scientists; Harry Craft Jr., Director of the Technology Transfer Office at NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center; Peter Diamandis, co-founder of the International Space University; and Richard Jacobson, former president of SPACEHAB, Inc. The panelists debated how practical NASA could be and still have a visionary program for science exploration. Panelists concluded that NASA needed to do a better job of marketing its product. (Huntsville News, May 11/94; Htsvl Tms, May 11/94)
Japanese Prime Minister Tustomu Hata's Space Activities Commission announced that Japan's first woman astronaut, Chiaki Mukai, a medical researcher, was to take part in NASA's Columbia flight set for launch July 8. The flight was to conduct some 80 experiments under the second International Microgravity Laboratory Project, of which Japan is a member. (UP, May 11/94)
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