May 10 1993
From The Space Library
Space News for this day. (1MB PDF)
The Washington Post reported that NASA had selected three design concepts from among the many that had been proposed since the White House told the Agency to come up with a new, half-price plan by early June. White House guidelines called for NASA to design a long-duration laboratory in orbit that would use the weightlessness of space as a tool for research on materials and living things, as a means of developing technology and engineering skills for advanced human and robotic space systems, and as a way to encourage international cooperation. (W Post, May 10/93)
The Houston Chronicle announced that NASA, responding to criticism of its cost overruns and the quality of its projects, had announced major reforms in the way it did business. In addition to other changes, procurement reforms would levy greater penalties on contractors that deliver defective products, continually exceed cost estimates, or fall behind schedule. (H Chron, May 10/93; Federal Computer Week, May 24/93)
In an address to the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), Daniel S. Goldin, NASA Administrator, said that the redesign effort for Space Station Freedom was making "great progress." (AV Wk, May 10/93)
Gregory M. Reck, NASA's Acting Associate Administrator for Advanced concepts and Technology, announced that the first flight of Comet, the Commercial Experiment Transporter, would slip from mid-June to at least July or August. The launch had already been delayed for two months because of technical difficulties. (AV Wk, May 10/93)
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