Mar 24 1992
From The Space Library
The scheduled launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis was canceled because of fuel leaks, but NASA decided it was a fleeting problem that posed no danger. Launch Director Bob Sieck said he was confident the trouble was not a recurrence of the hydrogen leaks that grounded the Shuttle fleet for almost six months in 1990. The launch was rescheduled for the next day. (W Post, Mar 24/92; NY Times, Mar 24/92; W Times, Mar 24/92; P Inq, Mar 24/92)
NASA announced that both tape recorders aboard the $617 million Compton Gamma Ray Observatory were malfunctioning, and engineers directed the craft to not use the machines. Compton, a joint project of NASA and the European Space Agency, was built by the space and technology group of TRW under the direction of Daniel S. Goldin, the man selected by President Bush to become the new NASA Administrator. (W Post, Mar 24/92)
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