Word: logsdon
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...away. Why does the U.S. need a space program anyway? Should the nation be risking lives and spending enormous amounts of money to keep sending humans into space, and if so, why? And should NASA, with its badly checkered history, be the agency in charge? Observes John Logsdon, director of George Washington University's Space Policy Institute: "We are in the process of making a transition from a program that was exciting and was related to some broad national interests at the time of the cold war, to something different. We don't know yet what that 'something different' will...
...none of the probe's backup systems responded to their electronic pleas, and after Wednesday there was little hope that a response would ever come. The problem, according to space experts, is that despite elaborate backup systems, space missions have become too complex to be made foolproof. Says John Logsdon, director of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University: "NASA should be doing smaller missions, more rapidly and with more limited objectives. Then if you lose one, you haven't lost everything." In fact, such a plan may already be in the works: NASA has reportedly sounded...
...Logsdon also faults NASA as an organization. "The agency seems to have ; lost some of its technical sharpness," he says. "It hasn't been adequately replenished with young people over the years" -- the result of budget cuts made in the 1970s. The current head of NASA, Daniel Goldin, aims to change this, says Logsdon, "but reconstructing a middle-aged, bureaucratic organization from within is difficult...
...have far more experience in the physiology of long-term space flight than their American counterparts have. If this bold collaboration comes off, it could lead to even more ambitious projects, like a joint manned mission to Mars, and forever change the way space research is done. Says John Logsdon, director of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University: "Cooperation is a win-win opportunity. Space exploration only makes sense if it's done on a cooperative basis...
Analyst Jeffrey Logsdon, of Seidler Amdec Securities in Los Angeles, prefers to look at the bigger picture. "It will be beneficial to Time Warner to have less debt," he says. "It will reduce their interest costs and the perceptions about leverage. The long-term investor will have to be patient. The stock drop is a knee-jerk reaction to an unexpected event...