Nov 28 1994
From The Space Library
The United States and Ukraine signed a five-year civil space agreement the week of November 21, which established direct cooperation between NASA and the Ukrainian National Space Agency and created the legal basis for bilateral scientific cooperation. The agreement, which provided for cooperation in such fields as remote sensing, telecommunications, biomedical sciences and biotechnology, and space research and technology, was described as "almost exactly the same" as the 1992 agreement with Russia. (Av Wk, Nov 28/94)
A scale model of Boeing's High Speed Commercial Transport was undergoing testing in the supersonic wind tunnel at NASA's Ames Research Center. (Av Wk, Nov 28/94)
NASA and contractor engineers were studying a number of existing engine designs as they tried to lower the propulsion technology risk for private development of a reusable launch vehicle (RLV) in the early 2000s. Operability rather than performance would be the key to any RLV engine. According to Len Worlund, director of the Advanced Transportation Technology Office at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, to get reusability, NASA and its partners were working to build components that better withstood repeated firings. They were also trying to lower the high turbine temperatures that had saddled the Shuttle's engines with crack-prone cooling shields that required frequent repairs. (Av Wk, Nov 28/94)
Stanford research associate Stephen Morris said that Stanford had successfully designed, built, and flown a model of a supersonic "wing" that should ultimately be able to cut drastically the time needed to reach Tokyo or London from the United States. NASA and Stanford studies indicated that an oblique flying wing with a 400-foot wingspan could carry 400 passengers from Los Angeles to Tokyo in seven hours instead of the 10 hours now required. (UP, Nov 28/94)
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