Oct 30 1994
From The Space Library
Prior to each Shuttle launch, NASA was obliged to remove the alligators that nested in the ditches along the causeway leading to the launch site. NASA had requested permission to fill in the ditches in order to solve the problem. (0 Sen Star, Oct 30/94)
NASA's Kennedy Space Center obtained an Andros robot to increase the safety of its workforce and save time and money. The robot could perform such tasks as deflating Space Shuttle tires and checking for bombs, which would be dangerous for humans. (Fla Today, Oct 30/94)
NASA's Wind spacecraft, built by Martin Marietta Astro Space in East Windsor, New Jersey, was scheduled to he launched November 1 or 2, weather permitting. The spacecraft was to study the solar wind, its origin, three-dimensional features, and interaction with the Earth over a two-to-three-year period. Specifically, the principal goal of the mission was to measure the mass, momentum, and energy of the solar wind that somehow was transferred into the space environment around the Earth. The spacecraft was launched successfully November 1. (Star-Ledger, Oct 30/94; Goldsboro News-Argus, Nov 1/94; NY Times, Nov 2/94; W Post, Nov 2/94; CSM, Nov 2/94; H Chron, Nov 2/94; USA Today, Nov 2/94)
A retrospective article looked at the role that NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California had played in the past, beginning with its establishment in 1947. It asserted that although now Dryden was used only for Space Shuttle landings when bad weather prevented the Shuttle from landing in Florida, it still managed to keep some 1,000 government and civilian employees busy. (Antelope Valley Press, Oct 30/94)
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