Word: labs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trust-fund spending could not continue. From now on, he decreed, the luxury ships of the past would be scrapped. In their place would be stripped-down spacecraft built essentially from available, off-the-shelf parts. What's more, the new ships would not contain a whole science lab's worth of instruments and experiments, but just a handful--generally the ones the scientists deemed absolutely essential to make the trip worthwhile...
Each of the landers carried a $50 million biology lab with some 40,000 components--pumps, chambers, filters and electronic parts--all packed into a 1-cu.-ft. box. On orders from Earth, Viking 1 stretched out a spindly mechanical arm, reached down, scooped up a heaping tablespoon of reddish Martian soil and, in effect, swallowed...
Inside the lander, computer-driven devices measured the soil samples and fed them into the miniature biology lab, where they were analyzed for signs of growth, metabolism and respiration, processes that would signal the presence of living microorganisms. In one of the tests, a soil sample dampened with "chicken soup"--a nutrient broth--gave off a burst of oxygen. In another, unexpectedly large amounts of carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide were released. While both results produced flurries of excitement at J.P.L., scientists eventually--though reluctantly--concluded that the gases resulted not from life processes, but from some exotic Martian chemistry...
...Franciscan with blond hair and a soft, open manner, moved to Crested Butte from New Hampshire in 1986, when she became director of the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, a high-altitude field station based in the ghost town of Gothic. The federal grazing land around the lab was leased by a "range pool" that included Trampe, now 50, who left college and started ranching in 1967 after his father dropped dead in the field. Trampe's elders in the range pool couldn't fathom the lab's scientists. "To a rancher, it's strange to see somebody crawling around...
...otherwise covered up the truth remain unresolved. Starr hasn't even delivered his long-overdue report on Foster's death, though it's likely to be issued within two weeks. The exhaustive report was delayed when Starr's team grew concerned over allegations of sloppy work at the FBI lab. The Foster investigation wasn't one of the cases compromised, but Starr's team took extra pains in an effort to avoid attacks from conspiracy theorists who still don't believe Foster killed himself...