Jan 12 1995
From The Space Library
NASA requested proposals for two vehicles, X-33 and X-34, to prove the concept of single-stage to orbit. The X-33 would he a technology demonstrator vehicle and the X-34 would be a reusable, or partially-reusable, booster for placing small payloads into a low Earth orbit. Significant cost-sharing by industry was anticipated. (NASA Releases 95-1, 23, 38 & 40)
NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin applauded Japan's contribution as a partner in the Space Station program when he spoke to high level science officials in Tokyo. Goldin was on his first trip to Japan as head of NASA. (Phillips Business Information, Jan. 16/95)
NASA astronomers said that a stellar object that erupted last summer with powerful bursts of x-rays and jets of hot gas at near the speed of light may be a black hole or possibly a neutron star in the act of gobbling up a companion star. The object, a relatively close 10,000 light-years from Earth, was discovered in July when it exploded with flashes of the most powerful natural x-rays in the heavens. The radiation was detected by NASA's Compton Gamma Ray Observatory. (AP, Jan 12/95)
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