yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) (12/21/89)
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Wednesday, December 20, 1989 Audio: 202/755-1788
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This is NASA Headline News for Wednesday, December 20....
Work continues at launch pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center in
preparation for the STS-32 space shuttle mission now scheduled
for no earlier than January 8. Workers continue to validate
fuel loading systems.
Aerospace Daily says U.S. astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts will
be monitored in orbit to develop databases of information
relative to the effects of long duration space flight. The
compatible databases were negotiated by officials from NASA and
the Soviet space organization last month. NASA's Director of
Life Sciences Dr. Arnauld Nicogosian says a NASA team will go to
the Soviet Union in January to train Soviet technicians to use a
Holter heart monitor and ultrasound equipment for use aboard the
Mir space station. U.S. astronauts will be monitored on space
shuttle flights in 1990 and 1991.
Orbital Sciences Corporation and Hercules Incorporated have
signed a reservation agreement with the Swedish Space Corporation
for a 1992 launch of a scientific satellite using the Pegasus air
launched orbital space booster. The Swedish satellite will
carry instruments to investigate the aurora and other
magnetospheric phenomena.
President Bush formally authorized the export of three U.S.-built
communications satellites to China yesterday. The chief
executive said the delivery "is in the national interest of the
United States". The satellites were built by Hughes Aircraft
Company...two for an Australian consortium...the other for a
British-Chinese consortium.
The scheduled launch of a commercial Titan 3 rocket carrying two
communications satellites from Cape Canaveral was postponed last
night for the fourth time. The reason....high winds over the
Cape area.
And....the Kennedy Space Center has awarded McDonnell Douglas
Space Services Co. a three-year extension to an existing contract
for payload ground operations services. The extension was valued
at approximately $192 million.
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