Jun 12 1994
From The Space Library
Ulysses, a European spacecraft deployed by U.S. Shuttle Discovery in October 1990, took three and a half years to travel the 93 million miles from Earth to the Sun's south pole. Between June and the fall of 1995, when it was due to pass the Sun's north pole, it would exhaustively examine the Sun-the first time the Sun had been observed from pole to pole. Ulysses was to examine the Sun's magnetic field, which influenced the solar cycles as well as the climate on Earth. The spacecraft also was to search for the source of gamma and gravity rays and to examine solar flares. (W Times, Jun 12/94)
A feature article on astronaut Eileen Collins, based at Ellington Field, indicated that she was scheduled to be the first woman to pilot a Space Shuttle when the flight occurred in February' 1995. (Texas, Jun 12/94)
Astronaut Janice E. Voss, training for a mission aboard Russian Space Station Mir, appeared in a two-hour electronic conference concerning the Mir flight, NASA, the Space Station, and her qualifications for being an astronaut. (Fla Today, Jun 12/94)
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