Oct 23 1991
From The Space Library
NASA announced that both Voyager spacecraft were still going strong after 14 years, more than two years after Voyager 2 observed Neptune. The two Voyagers were in a new phase, called the Voyager Interstellar Mission, searching for the outer edge of the solar system, the heliopause. (NASA Release 91-174)
NASA announced the naming of M. Rhea Seddon as payload commander for Spacelab Life Sciences-2 Space Shuttle mission, scheduled for launch in July 1993. (NASA Release 91-175)
Rockwell International Corporation stated that NASA had awarded it a three-year $453.5 million contract extension to provide maintenance and repair for the Space Shuttles. (UPI, Oct 23/91)
According to AP, the Hubble Space Telescope presents astrophysicists with a mystery: the existence of hydrogen clouds in space that should have dissipated billions of years ago. According to Ed Weiler, NASA's space telescope program manager, this was Hubble's most significant finding to date. (AP, Oct 23/91)
Florida Today reported that Forrest McCartney, who had headed Kennedy Space Center since 1986, would be retiring in about a year. Subsequently, the media reported that McCartney had been asked to step aside early by top NASA managers. (Fla Today, Oct 23/91; UPI, Oct 25/91; AP, Oct 26/91; W Times, Oct 27/91; 0 Sen Star, Oct 30/91)
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