Sep 18 1992
From The Space Library
Space News for this day. (1MB PDF)
Astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour began testing a system to deliver intravenous fluids in weightlessness, a step toward meeting the possible medical needs of astronauts who stay in space long-term. (AP Sept 18/92)
Dick Weinstein, manager of engineering standards and practices for NASA, said NASA was predominantly non-metric and likely to stay that way in view of a September 30, 1992, deadline for the United States to convert to the metric system. Weinstein predicted, however, that by 1995 NASA would be well into the conversion process. (Washington Technology, Sept 10/92)
The Pentagon, bowing to congressional pressure, revealed the existence of the super-secret agency that buys and operates the Nation's spy satellites and its other airborne espionage systems. The National Reconnaissance Office's mission is to ensure that the United States has the technology and spaceborne and airborne assets needed to acquire intelligence worldwide, according to the Pentagon. (P Inq, Sept 1992; C Trib, Sept 18/92)
NASA announced signature of a $59.3 million supplemental agreement with Rockwell International's Space Systems Divison for the design, development, test, and evaluation of a new system to update Space Shuttle orbiter cockpit displays. (NASA Release C92-15)
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