Jun 22 1994
From The Space Library
NASA announced the selection of 34 scientists to participate in the experiment definition phase of the Neurolab Space Shuttle mission. This was to be a 14- to 16-day mission jointly with the National Institutes of Health, devoted to brain and behavioral research and was scheduled for launch in early 1998. Various domestic and international partners also were participating, such as Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, and Nigeria. (NASA Release 94-100; Reuters, Jun 22/94)
The House Appropriations Committee approved a NASA budget of $14 billion, $240 million less than the administration's request. The approved budget included full funding, $2.1 billion, for the Space Station. However, opponents threatened a major fight once the budget came to the House floor. Following receipt of assurances "protecting the American taxpayers from any unforeseen failure in the U.S.-Russian space partnership" in a letter from President Clinton the evening of June 22, the ranking Republican on the House subcommittee on space, James Sensenbrenner from Wisconsin, said he would support the Space Station. (AP, Jun 22/94; Reuters, Jun 22/94; W Times, Jun 23/94; W Post, Jun 23/94; H Post, Jun 23/94; H Chron, Jun 23/94; H Chron, Jun 24/94; USA Today, Jun 28/94; W Times, Jun 28/94 )
NASA Associate Administrator Charles Kennel visited the University of North Dakota's (UND) Center for Aerospace Science (CAS). Kennel was in charge of NASA's Mission to Planet Earth, for which UND's Associate Dean George Seielstad said UND had a small contract. Kennel stated that CAS was well equipped and positioned to make data about the Earth available to non-traditional users. (Grand Forks Herald., Jun 23/94)
Commenting on NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin's urging of space scientists to search for a habitable planet among the stars, science columnist Robert C. Cowen viewed such a quest as feasible in view of the discoveries of the Hubble Space Telescope. He saw the next phase of the search as involving a look for signs of gravitational interaction of a star and planets. (CSM, Jun 22/94)
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