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Under the pressure of a growing backlog of unlaunched domestic satellites and increased competition from foreign space agencies, NASA finally received two pieces of good news last week. President Reagan announced Friday that he is ordering construction of a fourth orbiter to replace the shuttle Challenger, which carried seven astronauts to their death on Jan. 28. The new orbiter should be completed by 1991, its estimated $2.8 billion price to be paid in part out of money the space agency will save during the present launch hiatus. With a reduced launch schedule, the President said, the shuttle fleet will...
...wrong to mix both civilian and military payloads in that unreliable, complicated system." Air Force Major General Donald Kutyna, a member of the Rogers commission, has estimated that even if shuttles resume operation next summer and make an improbable 18 flights a year, there will be a defense-payload backlog of some 45 needed flights...
...didn't want the job," he says. "But the President persuaded me. He's not called the Great Communicator for nothing." Fletcher sees his short-term priorities as fixing the shuttle ("Ironically, that's the easiest part," he said), improving NASA's management practices, and then rejuggling a backlog of shuttle payloads. He intends to set up a panel of experts from the National Academy of Sciences to oversee the shuttle redesign, and has already appointed other outsiders to review the agency's management. On his return to his old post, he says, he was surprised to discover that...
...NASA boss is noncommittal on proposals that the agency stop lifting payloads for other countries and for private commercial purposes. While conceding that "somebody's got to take some of the backlog," Fletcher expressed doubts that "there is a good way" for private industry to step in quickly and develop its own expendable rockets. Still, plenty of private entrepreneurs seem willing...
Danieli's revenues surged 20% last year, to $139.2 million, and profits increased 37%, to $13.5 million. Looking ahead, the company is blessed with a backlog of orders worth $696 million. Customers appreciate Danieli's state-of- the-art technology and attention to detail. Though many steel plants are built by a team of companies, Danieli often takes charge of every phase of a project, from design to construction...