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...base on the moon in preparation for sending astronauts to Mars, Nixon issued a statement that shook the NASA hierarchy: "Space must take its place with other national priorities." Suddenly the space agency's primary mission became sheer survival. "Once NASA's goals in space were rejected," says John Logsdon, director of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University, "its purpose became maintenance of the institution. A siege mentality developed. NASA circled the wagons and began to lie to itself and everybody else...
...mainly to focus attention on the limits of high technology. The immediate result is that for all Hubble's tremendous cost, two of its most heralded advantages -- the ability to distinguish very close objects and the knack for detecting faint light from the early universe -- are lost. Said John Logsdon, director of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University: "It's horrible...
...foreign firms are so interested in a Hollywood presence is that they want popular American programming for their booming TV stations, cable companies, movie theaters and videocassette ventures. "American entertainment is still viewed as the pre-eminent source of programming in terms of production values and creativity," says Jeffrey Logsdon, director of institutional research for the investment firm Crowell, Weedon & Co. The U.S. posted net exports last year of $2.5 billion in movies, home videos and pay-per-view cable TV, an increase of 32% from the year before...
Also elected were: Karen W. Levy, American Literature, Adams House; Elizabeth J. Logsdon, Social Studies, Kirkland House; Army E. Margolin, American Literature, Mather House; Brooke A. Masters, History, Mather House; Elizabethg L. Matera, Literature, Mather House; Martha L. Moore, Religion, Lowell House; Penelope C. Papailias, American Literature, Eliot House; Annie Penn, Biology, Dunster House; Lisa P. Reiss, Psychology, Winthrop House; Kathryn E. Rorer, American Literature, Eliot House; Elizabeth Safran, Geological Sciences, Cabot House; Heidi M.V. Sullivan, Anthropology, Lowell House; and Celia M. Wren. Literature, Quincy House...
What is needed, says Logsdon, is "a purposeful, well-funded, coherent program. That, I think the country wants, and that is waiting for the next President to shape -- early in his Administration." NASA adviser Alan Ladwig agrees and urges "a national commitment to space. It's up to the White House and Congress to lead. It's not NASA's job anymore...