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Whatever the size of NASA's future budget, the agency hardly faces bankruptcy. Projects now scheduled, but not yet completely funded, will consume more money in the next decade than the $24 billion that Apollo has already cost. On NASA's list of ventures...
...handle the shuttle operation back to earth, NASA would use rocket vehicles that are described as "lifting bodies." Some of them will have retractable "switchblade" wings and enough maneuverability for landings at airfields instead of in the ocean. Eventually, Administrator Paine also hopes to cut the cost of putting a pound into earth orbit from the current $500 to $50. To help achieve this breakthrough, NASA has three different rockets on its drawing boards: Tri-Maran (a reusable three-stage booster whose stages are mounted side by side instead of atop each other); Dixie Cup (with a low-cost, discardable...
...raised gasoline prices in March. Earnings at Standard Oil of New Jersey advanced only 1.6%; profits rose 6% or more at Gulf, Mobil, and Standard Oil of Ohio but fell at Texaco, Phillips and Atlantic-Richfield. Occidental Petroleum recorded an 84% earnings increase, reflecting the rich flow of low-cost crude oil from its Libyan strikes...
Farming has been a feast-or-famine business for almost as long as history has recorded harvests. Today's bins of surplus food serve as pointed reminders that most agricultural policies are inadequate, inconsistent and archaic. The cost of subsidized farming in the Common Market is more than $2 billion a year; in the U.S. it is $3.6 billion. Yet prices are erratic, and people go hungry. Agricultural technology has shown that the Malthusian apocalypse of starvation can be avoided. The immense task now for the producers is to devise the economic and political conveyor belts that could...
Mann said that unless the group is very small, the cost per person would not be greater than the Grey Line bus tours...