* 1988 – Space Shuttle: NASA launches STS-26, the return to flight mission, after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

On October 29, 1986, the investigation of the Challenger accident criticized NASA for not “ estimating the probability of failure of the various elements .” Further, in January 1988, the Post-Challenger investigation recommended that “ probabilistic risk assessment approaches be applied to the Shuttle risk management program.

The U. S. Congress established the National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program in 1988 ; NASA administers the program, and first took that role in 1989.

He also received NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal in 1988 and three NASA Distinguished Service Medals in 1985, 1988, and 1993.

Rockwell International, which had its headquarters in the building, displayed a large model of the Rockwell-designed NASA Space Shuttle in the building's lobby until the company moved its headquarters to Southern California in 1988.

* NASA Distinguished Service Medals ( 1982, 1988 )

* NASA Exceptional Service Medal ( 1988 )

Evans Foundation Scholarship, 1970 ; University of Kansas Honor Scholarship, 1970 ; Summerfield Scholarship, 1970 – 1973 ; Veta B. Lear Award, 1970 ; Stranathan Award, 1972 ; Outstanding Physics Major Award, 1973 ; University of California Regents Fellowship, 1974 ; Group Achievement Award for software testing at the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory, 1981 ; NASA Outstanding Performance Award, 1981 ; NASA Superior Performance Award, 1981 ; Group Achievement Award for Second Orbiter Test and Checkout at Kennedy Space Center, 1982 ; Quality Increase, 1982 ; NASA Space Flight Medal ( 1984, 1986, 1990, 1997, 1999 ); Group Achievement Award for JSC Strategic Planning, 1987 ; NASA Exceptional Service Medal ( 1988, 1991 ); Special Achievement Award, 1988 ; Exceptional Service Medal for Return to Flight, 1988 ; Outstanding Leadership Medal, 1990 ; Special Achievement Award, 1990 ; Haley Flight Achievement Award, 1991 ; Kansan of the Year Award, 1992 ; Group Achievement Award for ESIG 3000 Integration Project, 1994 ; Presidential Rank Award ( 1994, 1999 ); Group Achievement Award for Space Shuttle Program Functional Workforce Review, 1995 ; Group Achievement Award for SFOC Contract Acquisition, 1997 ; Kansas Aviation Hall of Fame, 1997 ; University of Kansas Distinguished Service Citation, 1998 ; NASA Distinguished Service Medal ( 1998, 2000 ); Aviation Week & Space Technology Laurel Citation for Space, 1998, V. M.

" Her fiction has been nominated for nine Nebula and three Hugo Awards, and her genre-related scholarly work was recognized with a Pilgrim Award in 1988.

The presidential elections held in 1988 marked a watershed in Mexican politics, as they were the first serious threat to the party in power by an opposition candidate, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, a defector from the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ) and son of former President Lazaro Cardenas, who was nominated by a broad coalition of leftist parties.

* Falling Free – won the Nebula Award for Best Novel of 1988 ; nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1989

On the other hand, Gilliam's first successful feature, Time Bandits ( 1981 ), earned more than eight times its original budget in the United States alone ; The Adventures of Baron Munchausen ( 1988 ) was nominated for four Academy Awards ( and won, among other European prizes, three BAFTA Awards ); The Fisher King ( 1991 ) ( his first film not to feature a member from Python ) was nominated for five ( and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress ); and 12 Monkeys went on to take over US $ 168 million worldwide ; whilst The Brothers Grimm, despite a mixed critical reception, grossed over US $ 105 million worldwide.

The Libertarian Party nominated Andre Marrou, former Alaska representative and the Party's 1988 vice-presidential candidate, for President.

The Forge of God was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1987, and was also nominated for the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1988.

In 1988 Gordon Bunshaft nominated himself for the award and eventually won it.

Prelude to Foundation is a Locus Award nominated 1988 novel written by Isaac Asimov.

In addition, she won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Mini-series, or Motion Picture Made for Television for her role in The Two Mrs. Grenvilles ( 1988 ), and was nominated for an Emmy Award for the same.

Weaver has been nominated for three Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards ( one win ), two Emmy Awards, six Saturn Awards ( two wins ) and six Golden Globe Awards, winning two in 1988 for Gorillas in the Mist and Working Girl, becoming the first person ever to have won two acting Golden Globe Awards in the same year.

She received two Academy Award nominations in 1988, for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Working Girl and Best Actress for Gorillas in the Mist, making her one of the few actors nominated for two acting awards in the same year.

* Swan Song ( 1987 )-Co-winner of the 1987 Bram Stoker Award and nominated for the 1988 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel ; the first of his novels to appear on the New York Times Bestseller List

In 1988, after Mitterrand's re-election, he left the PS leadership, and, though the President considered naming him Prime Minister, he was nominated Minister of Education.

( 1988 ), with a screenplay by Sooni Taraporevala, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and won many other awards.

Sign of Chaos was nominated for the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel in 1988.

In 1988, for her performance in Throw Momma from the Train ( 1987 ) with Billy Crystal and Danny DeVito, Ramsey was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture.

* Christopher Sieber two-time Tony Award nominated actor ( Spamalot and Shrek the Musical ) is a 1988 graduate of Forest Lake High School.

Davis has written ( or in some cases co-written ) all of the Emmy Award-winning or nominated Garfield TV specials and was one of the producers behind the Garfield & Friends TV show which aired on CBS from 1988 to 1995.

She was nominated for the Best Young Actress Guest Starring In A Television Series award at the eleventh annual Youth in Film Awards in 1988 and 1989.

Additionally, Hall was nominated for Morituri ( 1965 ), The Professionals ( 1966 ), In Cold Blood ( 1967 ), The Day of the Locust ( 1975 ), Tequila Sunrise ( 1988 ), Searching for Bobby Fischer ( 1993 ), and A Civil Action ( 1998 ).

She was also nominated for the Emmy Award for " Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series " for this role in 1987, 1988, and 1989.

In 1988, Olmos was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for the film Stand and Deliver.

Notable productions were Lulu ( 1962 ; conducted by Karl Böhm, staged by Otto Schenk, designed by Caspar Neher, starring Evelyn Lear ), Haydn's Orfeo ed Euridice ( 1967 ; conducted by Richard Bonynge, staged by Rudolf Hartmann, with Nicolai Gedda, Joan Sutherland ), Fidelio ( 1970 ; conducted by Leonard Bernstein, staged by Schenk, with Gwyneth Jones, James King ), Il ritorno d ' Ulisse in patria ( 1971 ; conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, staged by Federik Mirdita ), L ' elisir d ' amore ( 1973 ; conducted by Silvio Varviso, staged by Schenk, with Nicolai Gedda, Reri Grist, Eberhard Wächter ), Die Fledermaus ( 1975 ; conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich, staged by Michael Kehlmann, with Wiesław Ochman, Reri Grist, Elizabeth Harwood, Waldemar Kmentt ), La clemenza di Tito ( 1976 ; conducted by Julius Rudel, staged by Mirdita, with Werner Hollweg, Teresa Berganza, Arleen Augér, Edda Moser ), Fierrabras ( 1988 ; conducted by Claudio Abbado, staged by Ruth Berghaus, with Thomas Hampson, Karita Mattila, László Polgár ), Die Entführung aus dem Serail ( 1989 ; conducted by Harnoncourt, staged by Ursel Herrmann, Karl-Ernst Herrmann ), Don Giovanni ( 1990 ; conducted by Abbado, staged by Luc Bondy, with Ruggero Raimondi, Karita Mattila, Marie McLaughlin, Cheryl Studer ), Le nozze di Figaro ( 1991 ; conducted by Abbado, staged by Jonathan Miller, with Ruggero Raimondi, Marie McLaughlin, Cheryl Studer ) and the world premiere of Adriana Hölszky's Die Wände ( 1995 ; conducted by Ulf Schirmer, staged by Hans Neuenfels ).

* Ulf Kristersson, 1988 – 1992

Hennen was selected as a payload specialist candidate in September 1988 and moved back to the " Home of Military Intelligence ", Fort Huachuca, Arizona, during March 1989 to begin Terra Scout payload operations training.

Making his ODI debut in the 1988 – 89 World Series Cup, he played seven matches in the tournament as a specialist batsman, but failed to pass 50.

Cyrix Corporation was a microprocessor developer that was founded in 1988 in Richardson, Texas as a specialist supplier of high-performance math coprocessors for 286 and 386 microprocessors.

Between 1988 and 1990 he worked at the Pernis Refinery as a management consultant, where he was a specialist on training and reorganisation.

From 1976 he was employed as an electrician, from 1978 as an electrical foreman, from 1982 as a test engineer, from 1986 as the head of a group, from 1988 until joining the cosmonauts corps as the lead specialist, head of a group at the NPO Energia check-out and testing facility.

Ross flew as a mission specialist on STS 61-B ( 1985 ), STS-27 ( 1988 ) and STS-37 ( 1991 ), was the Payload Commander on STS-55 / Spacelab-D2 ( 1993 ), and again served as a mission specialist on the second Space Shuttle to rendezvous and dock with the Russian Space Station Mir, STS-74 ( 1995 ), the first International Space Station assembly mission, STS-88 ( 1998 ) and STS-110 ( 2002 ).

He flew on three Space Shuttle missions, serving as a mission specialist on the crew of STS-41-D in August 1984, on STS-27 in December 1988, and on STS-36 in March 1990.

Shepherd then served as a mission specialist on three Space Shuttle flights: mission STS-27 in 1988, mission STS-41 in 1990, which deployed the Ulysses probe, and mission STS-52 in 1992.

He served as a mission specialist on STS-51-J ( October 3 – 7, 1985 ), STS-26 ( September 29 to October 3, 1988 ), STS-36 ( February 28 to March 4, 1990 ), and STS-42 ( January 22 – 30, 1992 ).

In 1988 their 20-year-olds won the Finnish junior championship with several prospective stars: defenceman Waltteri Immonen would be captain of the team 1991-1999 ; Mika Strömberg the club's all-time best-scoring defenceman ; Ari Sulander the main goaltender 1993-1998 ; forward Keijo Säilynoja a goal scorer and a penalty-shot specialist ; and Teemu Selänne the NHL record-breaker.

He was a mission specialist on STS-51-I ( 1985 ) and STS-26 ( 1988 ) and was the flight engineer on STS-35 ( 1990 ).

* 1985 – 1988: Jacek Fisiak ( born 1936 ), English language specialist

Selected by NASA as an astronaut candidate in June 1987, Runco qualified for assignment as an astronaut mission specialist in August 1988.

Selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in June 1987, Voss completed a one-year training and evaluation program in August 1988, which qualified him for assignment as a mission specialist on Space Shuttle flights.

A specialist wicketkeeper and useful right-hand middle-order batsman, he made an unheralded entry to international cricket in 1988, after only six first-class games.

After the lifting on sanctions restricting the time spent playing music ( so-called ' needle time ') in 1988, GWR FM became more and more music-led, playing Top 40 chart music during the daytime, and specialist music ( big band music, rock, rap etc.

After the lifting on sanctions restricting the time spent playing music ( so-called ' needle time ') in 1988, GWR FM became more and more music-led, playing Top 40 chart music during the daytime, and specialist music ( Big Band music, rock, rap etc.

P. fortunei and hybrids containing P. fortunei, have been the main focus of genetic improvement since 1988 by Toad Gully Growers, a specialist Paulownia propagation nursery based in Australia who supply planting stock worldwide.

In 1988 Liao founded EHS Consultants Limited which provided a range of environmental services requiring specialist expertise.

A few clubs began to feature specialist House nights-The Haçienda had " Hots " on Wednesday from July 1988, 2, 500 people could enjoy the British take on the Ibiza scene, the classic " Voodoo Ray " by A Guy Called Gerald ( Gerald Simpson ) was designed for The Haçienda and Madchester.

Incorporated on 9 June 1988, it is the major specialist medical centre in Singapore providing outpatient dermatological treatment, seeing about 950 patients a day.

From 1988 to 1990 he worked as a specialist at the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade and in the meantime, he was a director of a market research institute.