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...nightmare. "For Mars Observer," says Ghassem Asrar, the program scientist for Mission to Planet Earth, " NASA was involved in every step from start to orbit." Obedient to its bureaucratic, cover-your-backside tradition, the agency demanded that the companies building the Observer, led by General Electric and Martin Marietta, submit endless reams of paperwork documenting every last nut and bolt...
...filled with lights and wires -- and the NASA staffers knew it. Agency employees and contractors were allegedly bribed to help book the box on a shuttle mission. According to the Houston Chronicle, a manager at NASA's Life Sciences Directorate and an employee at GB Tech, a Martin Marietta subcontractor, have been implicated in the scheme. Coming on top of NASA's other misfortunes in recent years, the disclosures were disheartening. "It gives morale a good, solid kick in the stomach," says Larry Friesen, a former engineer for Lockheed, a NASA contractor...
...explosion was the doubt it created about the reliability of the newly designed Titan IV booster, on which both the Air Force and CIA are heavily dependent. The 12-story-high booster is the only rocket capable of launching a whole family of space-surveillance systems. Martin Marietta has delivered or has under construction about half of the 41 Titan IVs currently on order. Colonel Frank Stirling, director of the Air Force's Titan IV program, immediately grounded two other boosters scheduled for launch and said the delay could last up to a year...
HEALTH-CARE ALLIANCES. The Clinton plan envisions huge groupings of buyers -- patients, companies, insurers -- organizing to bargain with networks of sellers -- doctors, hospitals, nursing homes -- over service and prices. In four years of existence, the Central Florida Health Care Coalition, a grouping of major employers including Walt Disney, Martin Marietta and General Mills, has nagged local hospitals into many cost-cutting procedures. A newly enacted Minnesota law extends the idea by encouraging formation of integrated service networks. ISNs will be nonprofit organizations set up by groups of doctors and hospitals, or insurance companies, or employers, or governmental subdivisions, or just...
...five other young hackers, some of whom have had dealings with Rosenfeld. All five are allegedly members of a gang called Masters of Disaster. They are charged with breaking into computers at a host of companies and institutions, including the University of Washington, Bank of America, ITT and Martin Marietta. In one of its most damaging raids, the group allegedly wiped out most of the data on the Learning Link, a computer owned by a New York City public-TV station that provides educational information for hundreds of schools. A chilling electronic message was left behind: "Happy Thanksgiving, you turkeys...