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1/27/93: CROSSFIELD AWARDED NASA DISTINGUISHED PUBLIC SERVICE MEDAL
Drucella Andersen
Headquarters, Washington, D.C. January 27, 1993
RELEASE: 93-16
NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin awarded famed test pilot A. Scott
Crossfield the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal for his contributions to
aeronautics and aviation during a 50 year career. The award was presented in a
Capitol Hill ceremony honoring Crossfield's retirement from federal service
yesterday.
Crossfield played a pivotal role in NASA's highly successful X-15
research aircraft program in the late 50s and early 60s. He also flew most of
the early experimental X-series research planes for NASA's predecessor, the
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA).
More recently, he has been a key advocate of the National Aero-Space
Plane (NASP) program as technical consultant to the U.S. House of
Representatives Committee on Science and Technology.
"Scott's pioneering efforts with the X-series of airplanes and his
contributions to the X-15 program were vital to the historic flight research
accomplishments by NASA and the NACA," Goldin said. "He has continued to apply
his skills and talents to aeronautics with his visionary advice and counsel on
the NASP program and the potential it offers to the nation."
Crossfield joined NACA as a research pilot in 1950. During his 5-year
stint at the NACA High-Speed Flight Station, Edwards, Calif., he flew the X-1
and D558-II rocket planes and many experimental jets. On Nov. 20, 1953,
Crossfield became the first person to fly twice the speed of sound at the
controls of the D558-II "Skyrocket".
As chief engineering test pilot for North American Aviation, Inc.,
Crossfield was the driving force behind development of the record-setting X-15
rocket research aircraft that paved the way for NASA's Space Shuttle. He guided
the X-15 on its first free flight in 1959 and later qualified the first two
X-15s for flight before they were turned over to NASA and the U.S. Air Force.
"I have a lot of respect for Scott. He was an excellent test pilot,"
said former X-15 pilot Milt Thompson, now Chief Engineer at NASA's Ames-Dryden
Flight Research Facility, Edwards, Calif. "As pilot-consultant to the X-15, he
contributed significantly to the safety and reliability of its design."
Crossfield served as an executive for Eastern Airlines from 1967 to
1973, where he helped shape the company's technology applications, new aircraft
specifications and flight research development. From 1974 to 1975, he was
Senior Vice President with Hawker Siddley Aviation and established its U.S.
subsidiary for design, support and marketing of the HS-146 transport in North
America.
From 1977 until his retirement, Crossfield was technical consultant to
the House Committee on Science and Technology, where he advised committee
members on all aspects of civil aviation. He has been a strong supporter of
the NASP program to develop a flight research vehicle that will take off
horizontally, fly into Earth orbit and return through the atmosphere to land on
a runway.
Source:NASA Spacelink Modem:205-895-0028 Internet:192.149.89.61
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KSC SHUTTLE STATUS 1/27/93
SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Wednesday, January 27, 1993
George H. Diller
Kennedy Space Center
Vehicle: OV-102/Orbiter Columbia Location: OPF Bay 2
Primary payload: Spacelab D-2 Crew Size: 7
Launch timeframe: NET Feb. 25 10:30 a.m.
Mission duration: 8 Days 22 Hours Nominal Landing Site: KSC
Inclination: 28.45 degrees Orbital altitude: 184 sm
STS-55 IN WORK:
- Spacelab module positive pressure check
- crew compartment closeouts/close crew access hatch
- orbiter aft main engine compartment closeouts
- main propulsion system closeouts
- orbiter mid-body closeouts
- thermal protection system tile closeouts
STS-55 WORK COMPLETED:
- external tank door functional test
- payload bay door functional test
- avionics bay closeouts
STS-55 WORK SCHEDULED:
- remove BREMSAT GAS canister
- close payload bay doors on Saturday evening
- aft structural leak check/orbiter composite pressurization test
- weight and center of gravity determination
- install Columbia on orbiter transporter
- roll to the VAB evening of February 2
- mate to external tank/solid rocket boosters February 3
Source:NASA Spacelink Modem:205-895-0028 Internet:192.149.89.61
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DAILY NEWS/TV SKED 1/27/93
Daily News
Wednesday, January 27, 1993
Two Independence Square,
Washington, D.C.
Audio service: 202/358-3014
% KSC technicians readying Columbia for move to Vehicle Assembly Building;
% STS-54 post-mission briefing set for Monday, Feb. 1, at 4:00 pm EST;
% STS-55 pre-mission briefings to begin on Wednesday, Feb. 3, at 9:30 am EST;
% Geological, environmental, & remote sensing symposia set to begin next week
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Kennedy Space Center technicians are expecting to have Columbia ready to move
from the Orbiter Processing Facility to the Vehicle Assembly Building by this
weekend. Activity currently underway in OPF Bay 2 includes crew compartment
and aft engine compartment closeouts. Activity remaining includes the standard
weight and center-of-gravity determinations and installation of Columbia onto
its transporter for the move to the VAB. Once in the VAB, currently anticipated
to be by next Wednesday, the orbiter will be stacked onto the external tank and
made ready for the move to the launch pad.
KSC management will hold its launch readiness review on Monday, Feb. 8. The
NASA Office of Space Flight management's formal Flight Readiness Review will be
held at KSC on Thursday, Feb. 12. The launch dress rehearsal with the
astronaut and ground launch team crews will take place on Feb. 11 and 12, with
the simulated launch time at 11:00 am EST on Feb. 12.
Preparations on Columbia are proceeding on a schedule which could allow the
launch of the STS-55 mission in late February. The STS-55 mission is the second
dedicated German research flight; the first was the D-1 mission which flew on
STS-61A in November 1985. This flight is scheduled as an 8-day and 22-hour,
seven- crewmember mission with the Spacelab long module and a variety of
scientific discipline investigations. This mission's major Spacelab facilities
will continue the exploration of fluid physics and human physiological changes
in microgravity. Additional experiments will continue the investigations of
the Earth's atmosphere, the surface topography of the planet, and include
additional investigations in galactic astronomy and technology development.
The mission will also feature the flight of two German payload specialists and
will provide both the U.S. and German crewmembers with daily opportunities to
communicate with Earth-bound citizens in both countries through the Shuttle
Amateur Radio Experiment gear, which is flying again on this mission.
Briefings on the mission objectives and science experiments will be held at the
Johnson Space Center next Wednesday and Thursday, Feb. 3 and 4. The briefings
will be carried live on NASA Select television, and will begin at 9:30 am EST
on Wednesday.
Also, a post-mission briefing by the crew of the last mission, STS-54, will be
held at JSC on Monday, Feb. 1. This also will be shown live on NASA Select
television, beginning at 4:00 pm EST.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
The Environmental Research Institute of Michigan (ERIM) is hosting the 9th
Thematic Conference on Geologic Remote Sensing in Pasadena, Calif., Monday,
Feb. 8 through Thursday, Feb. 11. Cooperating professional societies include
the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, the Society of
Exploration Geophysicists, the Geological Society of America, the Colorado
Mining Association, the Canadian Remote Sensing Society, the International
Society for Optical Engineering, and the American Association of Petroleum
Geologists.
The Pasadena conference will feature special workshops on the geological
applications of radar remote sensing and other workshops on geographic
information systems (GIS). The conference will take place at the Pasadena
Center Conference Building and at the nearby Doubletree Hotel.
Other related international conferences scheduled in the near future include
the 25th International Symposium on Remote Sensing and Global Environmental
Change, also being co-sponsored by ERIM, in Graz, Austria, the week of April 4
through 8; and the International Society for Optical Engineering and American
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics jointly-hosted Optical Engineering
and Photonics in Aerospace Science and Sensing Symposium to be held in Orlando,
Fla., the week of April 12 through 16.
Here's the broadcast schedule for Public Affairs events on NASA Select TV. Note
that all events and times may change without notice, and that all times listed
are Eastern. Live indicates a program is transmitted live.
Wednesday, January 27, 1993
Live
12:00 pm NASA Today news program, today
featuring a report on the upcoming STS-55 mission; a
report from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the Mars
Observer, now enroute to the Red Planet; a report on an
experiment in the Antarctic which bears on the Mars
mission; and a report on a NASA airplane which has an
extra set of landing wheels.
12:15 pm Aeronautics & Space Report.
12:30 pm Science Operations in Space.
1:00 pm NASA 1992 - the Year in Review.
1:45 pm Magnetic Effects in Space.
2:00 pm Starfinder program #8.
2:30 pm Where Dreams Come From.
3:00 pm Total Quality Management program #31, from
the University of New Mexico series.
at 4:00 and 8:00 pm and 12:00 midnight the broadcast
schedule of the day repeats.
Thursday, January 28, 1993
Live
12:00 pm NASA Today news program.
12:15 pm Aeronautics & Space Report.
12:30 pm Aeronautics and Technology program block
(title will be provided as schedule is developed).
1:00 pm Human space flight program block (title
will be provided as schedule is developed).
1:30 pm Earth and Space Science program block
(title will be provided as schedule is developed).
2:00 pm Starfinder program #9.
2:30 pm Earth and Space Science program block
(title will be provided as schedule is developed).
3:00 pm Total Quality Management program #32, from
the University of New Mexico series.
at 4:00 and 8:00 pm and 12:00 midnight the broadcast
schedule of the day repeats.
Friday, January 29, 1993
Live
12:00 pm NASA Today news program.
12:15 pm Aeronautics & Space Report.
12:30 pm Aeronautics and Technology program block
(title will be provided as schedule is developed).
1:00 pm Human space flight program block (title
will be provided as schedule is developed).
1:30 pm Earth and Space Science program block
(title will be provided as schedule is developed).
2:00 pm Starfinder program #10.
2:30 pm Earth and Space Science program block
(title will be provided as schedule is developed).
3:00 pm Total Quality Management program #33, from
the University of New Mexico series.
at 4:00 and 8:00 pm and 12:00 midnight the broadcast
schedule of the day repeats.
Monday, February 1, 1993
Live
4:00 pm STS-54 astronaut crew post-mission
briefing from the Johnson Space Center.
Tuesday, February 2, 1993
Live
12:00 pm NASA Today news program.
12:15 pm Aeronautics & Space Report.
12:30 pm Aeronautics and Technology program block
(title will be provided as schedule is developed).
1:00 pm Human space flight program block (title
will be provided as schedule is developed).
1:30 pm Earth and Space Science program block
(title will be provided as schedule is developed).
2:00 pm Starfinder program #11.
2:30 pm Earth and Space Science program block
(title will be provided as schedule is developed).
3:00 pm Total Quality Management program #34, from
the University of New Mexico series.
at 4:00 and 8:00 pm and 12:00 midnight the broadcast
schedule of the day repeats.
Wednesday, February 3, 1993
9:30 am STS-55 mission overview with Gary Coen,
lead flight director, from Johnson Space Center.
Live
10:30 am German Research Organization science
overview with discipline investigation principal
investigators, from JSC.
Live
12:00 pm NASA science overview with discipline
investigation principal investigators, from JSC.
Live
2:00 pm Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment briefing
with Louis McFadin, from JSC.
Thursday, February 4, 1993
Live
9:00 am STS-55 crew briefing with Steven Nagel,
commander; Ternce Henricks, pilot; Jerry Ross, Bernard
Harris, Jr., and Charles Precourt, mission specialists;
and Hans Schlegel and Ulrich Walter, German payload
specialists; from JSC.
NASA Select TV is carried on GE Satcom F2R, transponder 13, C-Band, 72 degrees
West Longitude, transponder frequency is 3960 MegaHertz, audio subcarrier is
6.8 MHz, polarization is vertical.
Source:NASA Spacelink Modem:205-895-0028 Internet:192.149.89.61
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MAGELLAN MOSAIC IMAGE OF NAVKA REGION IMPACT CRATER
JET PROPULSION LABORATORY
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
PASADENA, CALIF. 91109
PHOTO CAPTION MAGELLAN
P-36642 MGN-11
9/17/90
On September 15, 1990, the Magellan spacecraft started radar
operations for its mapping mission at Venus. This image is taken
from the first set of radar data collected in the normal operating
mode. This Magellan radar image is of an impact crater in the Navka
Region of Venus. The image is a mosaic of data taken from orbits
376 and 377 on September 15, 1990. The crater is located at 334.5
E. longitude, 21.4 S. latitude, and is about 9 x 12 kilometers (5
x 7 miles) in size. This crater is very unusual, and is in some
ways different from anything seen elsewhere in the solar system.
It is fresh, with a sharp rim, terraces on the walls, and a well-
developed ejecta blanket. The rim, however, is distinctly kidney-
shaped rather than circular, and the crater's fresh appearance
suggests, that it formed with that shape at impact. The ejecta
blanket is markedly non-symmetric, with lobes extending to the
north (top) and south (bottom) of the image, and a major extension
stretching to the east (right). On the crater floor are several
smooth, flat, dark regions. The asymmetric shape of the ejecta
blanket has been observed on other planets and in impact
experiments, and probably indicates that the impactor struck the
surface at a low, oblique angle. The impactor would have been
moving from west to east, sending ejecta lobes off to either side
and a long streamer in the forward direction. The truly unusual
aspect of the crater is its shape. One possible explanation is
that the impactor broke up as it passed through the dense Venusian
atmosphere, causing several large chunks of material to strike the
surface almost simultaneously in an irregular pattern. The dark
patches on the crater floor may be solidified pools of molten rock
generated by the impact, or could be volcanic material extruded
some time after the crater's formation.
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