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Despite the excitement about Discovery's mission, and the talk of the U.S. space program getting back on track, some caution flags were raised last week. "It was an impressive and important first step," says John Logsdon, director of George Washington University's Space Policy Institute. "But many of the problems that have been there are still there." Those problems are legion. For starters, the shuttle's complexity and NASA's heightened concern for safety lead many experts to doubt the agency's ability to hold to even its relatively modest schedule of 18 more flights between...
Other critics complain that NASA has become obsessed with long-term planning. "I think getting the shuttle flying and getting a space station program under way are goals enough for now," says John Logsdon, director of George Washington University's science and public policy program. "We should get on with the program," says James French, who left his job as project director at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for a position in industry. "I got out because there were too many reports and not enough flying...
...John Logsdon, George Washington University's space policy expert, has studied the program and its relationship to the American people. After last week's disaster, he noted that in many sports arenas, when they play the national anthem, among the images flashed on the big screens is that of the shuttle. "It's one of our most common national symbols now," he said. "Right after the bald eagle." Along with its predecessors, stretching back to the first Redstone rockets, it remains even now a symbol of America's common bond as a nation, in times of both triumph and tragedy...
Conventions are expensive. Director R. E. Logsdon of the Memphis, Tenn., Convention and Tourists Bureau has estimated annual U. S. convention attendance at 5,000,000, annual costs...