Jan 12 1987
From The Space Library
Representative Edward Boland (Democrat-Massachusetts) and Senator Jake Gam (Republican-Utah), who hold leadership positions on House and Senate appropriations panels with NASA oversight, recommended that NASA change the Space Shuttle program launch schedule. The two members of Congress asked NASA to move the ESA Ulysses mission, scheduled for launch sometime in 1989-90, to a Titan 4 launch in 1991. This change would permit U.S. planetary satellites Galileo, Magellan, and the Mars Observer to be launched in the 1989-90 period. NASA officials agreed to give serious consideration to the change, but expressed fear that another delay in the Ulysses launch, originally scheduled for 1983, might damage NASA's relationship with the ESA. (Av Wk, Jan 12/87)
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