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LEAD: With the future of the nation's civilian space program hanging in the balance, the space shuttle Discovery was being readied today to carry American astronauts into orbit for the first time since the Challenger disaster 32 months ago.
LEAD: In an age in which factories are being converted into condominiums and schools into shopping malls, Washington is about to inaugurate what may be the most daring transformation of a historic structure yet - the conversion of its spectacular, 81-year-old train station back into a train station.
LEAD: Even though Wall Street has been the catalyst for the takeover wave sweeping corporate America in recent years, financial experts never quite believed the future could be as frenzied. An inevitable slowdown was always around the corner, investment bankers and analysts figured.
LEAD: THE reopening of the Royalton Hotel on Oct. 10 is one of the most-awaited design events of the year in Manhattan. Philippe Starck, the current superstar of French design, has completely restructured the 90-year-old neo-Georgian limestone building on 44th Street, aiming to turn it into a home away from home for well-traveled sophisticates.
LEAD: On Tuesday, the eve of his election as the future Episcopal Bishop of New York, Richard F. Grein's staff in Topeka, Kan., ceremoniously presented him with a Yankees cap, a ''Let's Go Mets'' bumper sticker, a Giants' pennant and a one-way airplane ticket to New York.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 28, 1988, covering September 29, 1988.
Guns N' Roses
Def Leppard
Tracy Chapman
Soundtrack
Steve Winwood
1988Samuel Di Carmine, Italian footballer[†]
Samuel Di Carmine is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Serie C Group A club Trento.
1988Kevin Durant, American basketball player[†]
Kevin Wayne Durant, also known by his initials KD, is an American professional basketball player for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Durant has won two NBA championships, four Olympic gold medals, an NBA Most Valuable Player Award, two NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Awards, two NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Awards, four NBA scoring titles, and the NBA Rookie of the Year Award. He has been named to 11 All-NBA teams and selected 15 times as an NBA All-Star. In 2021, Durant was named to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team. He ranks eighth among NBA career scoring leaders.
1988Charles Addams, American cartoonist (born 1912)[†]
Charles Samuel Addams was an American cartoonist known for his darkly humorous and macabre characters. Some of his recurring characters became known as the Addams Family, and were subsequently popularized through various adaptations.
1988NASA launches STS-26, the first Space Shuttle mission since the Challenger disaster.[†]
STS-26 was the 26th NASA Space Shuttle mission and the seventh flight of the orbiter Discovery. The mission launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on September 29, 1988, and landed four days later on October 3, 1988. STS-26 was declared the "Return to Flight" mission, being the first mission after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster of January 28, 1986. It was the first mission since STS-9 to use the original Space Transportation System (STS) numbering system, the first to have all its crew members wear pressure suits for launch and landing since STS-4, and the first mission with bailout capacity since STS-4. STS-26 was also the first U.S. space mission with an all-veteran crew since Apollo 11, with all of its crew members having flown at least one prior mission.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]