Word: fletcherize
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...mention of the much touted space initiative. When the plan was finally unveiled at the White House last week, the reason for delay became clear: the President's new space policy so downplayed the role of NASA, once the unchallenged ruler of the space program, that NASA Administrator James Fletcher had been waging a last- ditch fight against aspects of it. Even so, in the end good soldier Fletcher declared, "We're all working together. The military is going to be in space, science is going to be there, but the private sector is also going to be there...
...been committed to the Industrial Space Facility, an unmanned mini-space station designed by Houston's Space Industries, Inc. The Reagan initiative calls on NASA to become the primary tenant aboard such a facility to the tune of some $140 million a year -- the major complaint of NASA's Fletcher. The agency recently has been fighting ISF for fear that ax-wielding Government budgeteers will see the laboratory as an alternative to its own expensive space lab. Says one Commerce Department source bluntly: "NASA fears it's an effort to kill the space station...
...soldier said he asked the cameraman, Ofir Moradov, to stop filming a protest, but NBC correspondent Martin Fletcher said Moradov did not hear the request. The army said the soldier was convicted of "unbecoming conduct," but would not reveal his name or the sentence...
...recommendations made in the report have been followed. In fact, NASA contends, many of the steps had been taken by the time it received the report. Rodney announced that experts will be asked to take another, updated look at NASA's safety controls. Declared NASA Administrator James Fletcher: "We will fly only when we are ready. And readiness means that the shuttle will fly only when it's as safe as we can make...
...pressures to get an American laboratory of some kind into space are strong. By a sobering coincidence, on the day after Fletcher made his contract announcement, the Soviet crew commander marked his 300th consecutive day aboard Mir, the world's only space station...