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Although development continues, the experiments could have been completed and flown long before now if they had received adequate financial backing from NASA--comparable to previous levels, CFA scientists...
...CFA project is currently scheduled for a 1984 shuttle launch, and three others are more tentative. The architects of these highly technical devices say that without a renewed national commitment to space research, the United States may lose its pre-eminence in this field of exploration, a source of national prestige since the early 1960s...
Despite plans for a revolutionary space telescope to be mounted on the-shuttle and talk of a permanent space station to serve as another landing-base and research center. CFA scientists say they anticipate a further shrinking of pure space science research opportunities...
Gorenstein's LAMAR, and two other CFA experiments, have been out "in limbo", according to one scientist. Funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) since late 1979, these projects have progressed slowly in recent years...
Lecturer on Astronomy Giovanni Fazio, the scientist who designed the one jointly run CFA project definitely scheduled for a shuttle flight, also says that his experiment had been hindered because of the financial and technical emphasis on developing the shuttle...