May 19 1994
From The Space Library
NASA announced that the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 returned valuable new images of the supernova 1994 I in the inner regions of the "Whirlpool Galaxy," M51, located 20 million light-years away in the constellation Canes Venatici. A supernova is a violent stellar explosion that destroys a star while ejecting the products of nuclear burning into the gas between stars. (NASA Release 94-76)
NASA also announced that the Hubble Space Telescope had obtained the best images yet of a mysterious mirror-imaged pair of rings of glowing gas that encircle the site of the stellar explosion supernova 1987A. The explanation of the pair of rings was uncertain. (NASA Release 94-77; Reuters, May 19/94; AP, May 19/94; NY Times, May 20/94; B Sun, May 20/94; W Post, May 20/94; USA Today, May 20/94; CSM, May 26/94)
NASA announced the award of contracts to 16 research teams for advanced aeronautics projects and studies in its largest solicitation of breakthrough ideas from industry, universities, and other government agencies. Sponsored by NASA's Office of Aeronautics, under the Advanced Concepts for Aeronautics program, the contracts were to develop aeronautical concepts that were technologically risky, but had a high potential payoff for U.S. industry. (NASA Release C94-r)
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, and its affiliated sites-Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Virginia, and NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC-announced the selection of Cortez III Services Corporation of Albuquerque, New Mexico, to provide comprehensive logistics services to these sites. The services included transportation, flight project planning and coordination support, supply management, ware-housing, property management and disposal, mail services, forms and records management, and interior design. (NASA Release C94-s)
George E. Brown, Jr., Democrat from California and chairman of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, said that if Congress allocated NASA less than $14.15 billion in the 1995 budget, he would probably oppose continuing the Space Station program in its present form. He said that he would submit a reduced NASA budget to Congress that kept Space Station funding intact but eliminated one Shuttle flight, the planned Mars Surveyor project, and other items. Senator Barbara Mikulski, Democrat from Maryland and chair of the subcommittee that oversees NASA's annual appropriation, said the subcommittee needed to receive a higher 602 (B) budget allocation than its House counterpart to sustain NASA's programs. She added that if the Space Station lost in the House, she thought it would be difficult to maintain it. (W Post, May 20/94; NY Times, May 20/94; Fla Today, May 20/94; 0 Sen Star, May 20/94; Defense Daily, May 20/94; W Post, May 20/94; Av Wk, May 23/94)
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