August 15
The fourth Joint Integrated Simulation for the Astro-1 mission was successfully completed. (See MSFC History Office Microfiche #2127, "Notable MSFC Events During 1990," August 21, 1990)
August 15
Alabama Senator Howell Heflin sent a letter, signed by 63 colleagues, to the chairman of a key NASA funding subcommittee, asking the panel to approve the Bush administration's full $2.5 billion Space Station budget request for Fiscal Year 1991. ("Heflin Orchestrates Senate Supporters of U.S. Space Station," The Birmingham News, August 16, 1990)
August 15
MSFC Director Jack Lee announced that the Phase I definition of the Laser Atmospheric Wind Sounder (LAWS) had been successfully completed under the direction of the Program Development Directorate and that he was transferring management responsibility for the LAWS project to the Payload Projects Office for completion of Phase II and conduct of the project implementation phase. Concurrently, Lee established within the Payload Projects Office the Earth Science and Application Branch. "This branch will provide a focus for our increasing role in managing the development of scientific investigations such as LAWS, that are vital to the success of the President's Mission to Planet Earth Initiative. included in these responsibilities is management of the MSFC Earth Observation System Data and Information System Development Activities," Lee said. ("Laser Atmospheric wind Sounder (LAWS) and Earth Observation System (EOS) Data and information System Responsibilities," DA01/T.J. Lee to Distribution, August 15, 1990)
August 15
The third meeting of The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Optical Systems Board of Investigation was held August 15-16 at the 0ffices of Hughes Danbury Optical Systems (HDOS), Inc., Danbury, Connecticut. A portion of the meeting involved a HDOS report on its review of recently recovered null corrector design documents. HDOS then reported on the completed sensitivity analyses of the HST Optical Telescope Assembly test equipment and procedures which yielded a mathematically plausible source of the error as observed in the HST primary mirror (The Hubble Space Telescope Optical Systems Failure Report, Issued November 27, 1990)
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