Nov 8 1993
From The Space Library
Space News for this day. (1MB PDF)
NASA announced that it had officially kicked off Phase II of its High-Speed Research Program, a partnership with U.S. industry to develop technology that could enable the development of a next-generation super-sonic airliner. (NASA Release 93-202)
NASA announced that in one of the deepest celestial surveys yet made by the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers had discovered a small group of previously unknown interacting galaxies estimated to be three billion light-years away. Because Hubble caught the galaxies in an early stage of evolution, they offer new clues as to how galaxies have changed over time. (NASA Release 93-203)
Dr. John Peoples Jr., director of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois, was appointed to take over direction of the dismantling of the Superconducting Super Collider in Texas. Dr. Peoples was to replace Dr. Ray F. Schwitters, the Super Collider's founding director, who resigned last week after Congress decided to terminate the $11 billion project. (NY Times, Nov 9/93)
NASA held a marathon, 59-hour dress rehearsal of the agency's $251 million mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope and repair its flawed vision. The 11-day mission aboard the Shuttle Endeavour was planned for December 1.
Despite its flawed minor, the Hubble telescope has produced a steady stream of important discoveries. More than 290 Hubble-based scientific papers have been published around the world. (B Sun, Nov 7/93, Nov 9/93, Nov 15/93; W Post, Nov 22/93)
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