22 December 1997: Securacom Inc. Appoints Lt. General James A. Abrahamson, USAF- Retired – to its Board, press release, Yahoo 21 December 1997: Astrophysicist Schramm Dies in Plane Crash, Reuters, Yahoo 19 December 1997: KSC Launch Director Harrington to retire; successors named, KSC press relase, Florida Today 18 December 1997: Administrator’s Holiday Greeting, from Dan Goldin “NASA’s successes did not happen because we have good luck. Nor did they happen because of any one […]
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Year: 1997
24 December 1997: Spacehab gets $62 mln in space contracts, Reuters, Yahoo 19 December 1997: Science Fiction-Like Exploits Of The Space Shuttle, USA press release, Yahoo 16 December 1997: NASA officials criticize space report, UPI, Yahoo 16 December 1997: Report: space debris threatens shuttle,UPI, Yahoo 16 December 1997: Tiny deadly space debris seen as threat, Wired, Yahoo 16 December 1997: Orbital Debris May Pose Significant Risk to the Space Shuttle, Press release, […]
Date: Tuesday, December 23, 1997 // MD 140/89 Mir Station System/Subsystem Activities This past weekend, during changeout of the Base Block air conditioner compressor unit, a check valve failed inside the air conditioner unit (not the new compressor) resulting in a Freon 218 leak of approximately 500 grams. The Moscow Operations team is assessing options to deliver a new air conditioner and compressor either on Shuttle or Progress. The manifesting […]
NASA MIR Program Mir 24 / NASA 6 Status Date:09 Wednesday, December 17, 1997 Mission Day:09 Mir 24 / NASA 6 MD 134/83 Mir Station System/Subsystem Activities All primary major systems continue to operate nominally. Inspector activities were terminated today due to a problem with the Inspector star tracker. The crew kept receiving an input that the star tracker was overheating. The logic of the Inspector payload is such that […]
Synopsis: Dan Goldin made some rather interesting comments today during his closing session commentary on the recommendations made by the NASA Advisory Committee (NAC). His comments were prompted by the recommendations made by the NAC regarding an earlier presentation on what NASA thinks “Better – Cheaper – Faster” means. The NAC had expressed some concern over just what this phrase meant at NASA – and how all three components could […]
NASA MIR Program / Mir 24 / NASA 6 Status Date: Thursday, November 20, 1997 // MD 107/56 Mir Station System/Subsystem Activities Today’s major activities centered on preparation and execution of the Cooperative Solar Array experiment. The test consisted of disconnecting, measuring, and connecting multiple solar cells on the Cooperative Solar array (Kvant -Z axis) and the disconnection and re-connection of the Russian Solar array (Kvant +Z axis – installed […]
Date: Wednesday, November 19, 1997// MD 106/55 Mir Station System/Subsystem Activities Health of the major systems continue to remain unchanged (Kvant Electron working (periodically turned off/on for power), 11 gyrodynes holding attitude, Condensate System working, Urine Recycling System working). After continuing discussions with different Russians on last Friday’s solar array test, we have learned the experiment was performed to test the Cooperative Solar Array and NOT the newly installed Kvant […]
Date: Monday, October 20, 1997 // MD 76/25 Mir Station System/Subsystem Activities The second IVA into Spektr was conducted today, and the crew connected two of the three cables for the solar array orientation system to the hermaplate on the hatch. They were unable to make one of the connections due to difficulties with access, so one of the three undamaged arrays will not be steerable. The MOST is attempting […]
NASA 6 Status Date: Sunday, October 19, 1997// MD 75/24 Mir Station System/Subsystem Activities The Progress vestibule was successfully depressurized today. The station was commanded to free drift at DMT 11:37 this morning, and the crew then removed the Progress clamps and closed the Kvant-1 hatch. The depress was started at 13:05, and by the end of the comm pass the pressure had dropped to 37 mm. The valve was […]
NASA MIR Program Mir 24 / NASA 6 Status Date: Sunday, October 5, 1997 Mission Day: Mir 24 / NASA 6 MD 61/10 Mir 24 CDR Anatoly Solovyov Mir 24 FE Pavel Vinogradov NASA 6 FE Dave Wolf Mir Station System/Subsystem Activities In preparation for tomorrow’s undocking, the crew closed the hatch to Progress and performed leak checks today and also performed a TORU checkout. Progress M-36 launched successfully early […]