Oct 10 1991
From The Space Library
NASA announced that beginning October 12, 1992, 500 years after Columbus's discovery of America, NASA would begin the most comprehensive search ever for evidence of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. The NASA search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) microwave project is to be a ground-based decade-long effort to detect microwave radio transmissions. (NASA Release 91-170; UPI, Oct 11/91)
William J. O'Neil, manager of the $1.4 billion Galileo project at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said Galileo fired its thrusters to put it on a course to take it close to the asteroid Gaspra on October 29. (AP, Oct 10/91; W Times, Oct 10/91; LA Times, Oct 10/91)
The speech of Lennard A. Fisk, NASA's Associate Administrator for Space Science and Applications, at a September 19 meeting of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, was published in Washington Technology. Fisk first dealt with the causes and effects of negative publicity about NASA and went on to defend NASA's accomplishments and the ration-ale for NASA's existence as being an absolute rather than a relative one, which made developing a consensus harder. He concluded that "The adventure of space is a vital part of our society. The space program needs to be perceived as the best this country has to offer." (Washington Technology, Oct 10/91)
According to the Los Angeles Daily News, NASA decided to modernize Space Shuttles Atlantis and Discovery in Florida rather than in Palmdale. This development, which was designed to save time and money, would cost the Antelope Valley of California more than 400 jobs. (LA Daily News, Oct 10/91)
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