Dec 30 1987
From The Space Library
Two teams of NASA specialists began an inquiry as to why the test-firing of the reconstructed Shuttle booster rocket on December 23 failed. The same day, Congressman Manuel Lujan, Jr. of New Mexico urged NASA to find a second company, in addition to Morton Thiokol, Inc., to build the booster rocket. (B Sun, Dec 31/87; H Post, Dec 31/87; USA Today, Dec 31/87; W Post, Dec 31/87; W Times, Dec 31/87)
The Soviet newspaper Sovietskaya Rossiya reported that two Soviet cosmonauts grew taller while in space. According to the paper, cosmonaut Yuri V. Romanenko grew four-tenths of an inch taller during his record ten and a half months in space, and his crewmate Alexander Alexandrov grew six-tenths of an inch. The gain in height was because of lack of gravity in space. (NY Times, Dec 31/87)
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