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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1996
Page
3
Cape Canaveral sees seven astronauts aboard the shuttle Columbia prepare for a 17 day, 173 mile high mission. They face high risk, low insurance coverage, and pay similar to teachers, as Jim Lovell explains humans seek challenge and adventure.
NASA planned liftoff at 10 49 a m on a 16 to 17 day mission to study effects of extended spaceflight on the body but thunderstorms threaten the start with only a 40 percent window for acceptable conditions. Story Musgrave reflects on the launch as he nears a record sixth spaceflight.
A National Research Council panel urges immediate hardware and policy changes to make NASA's space station more research friendly and cheaper to run. They propose auctioning up to 15 percent of station space to private firms, adding sensors to monitor stresses, using off the shelf data equipment, and threading components with fiber optics to ease upgrades. NASA will respond in weeks as costs top 100 billion over a decade.
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