[An exceptionally light week for space news.]
Columbia's pilots used a novel method of refresher training before landing after the ten-day SLS-1 mission: they took along videotapes of cockpit views of practice landings made using the Shuttle Training Aircraft, and reviewed them on reentry day using the viewfinder monitor of the crew's video camera.
Free fall is lots of fun... An intravenous fluid pump was one of the odds and ends to be tested on SLS-1, with an eye to medical care on the space station. Back to the drawing board; didn't work.
Westinghouse has announced a new microgravity service, Westar, using the hardware being developed for NASA's Comet program. First Westar flight could be as early as 1993.
Money is tight everywhere... CRAF is in danger of dying due to this year's Congressional budget cuts in the US, while the Soviets too are suffering, with their launch rate down about 15% (to a mere 30 in the first six months of this year) due to economies.
Large color pictures of the Soviet pavilion at the Paris Air Show, dominated by the full-scale Mir/Kvant-1/Kvant-2/Kristall mockup.
Any program that calls itself an OS | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology (e.g. "MSDOS") isn't one. -Geoff Collyer| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry