Word: missions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...points: a space station longer than a football field orbiting 220 miles above the earth; permanent living quarters on the near side of the moon constructed out of lunar metals and used as a base for mining oxygen-rich moon rocks; then, sometime during the 21st century, a manned mission to Mars, at least a yearlong, 35 million-mile voyage. "It is humanity's destiny to strive, to seek and to find," declared the President, "and America's destiny to lead...
...Junior who went on the record with a Newsweek correspondent to deny salacious gossip about the candidate. It was a brash act that both got the adultery rumor into print and choked off its circulation. Occasionally Atwater used him as an emissary to the candidate when the mission was delicate. It fell to Junior to present the idea that Bush would strengthen his image by "swinging the ax" on Don Regan at a time when the White House chief of staff was about to topple. The Vice President said...
...faculty meeting last fall, some professors questioned the propriety of what they perceive as a for-profit summer school. At the request of the Faculty Council, the steering committee of the Faculty, the Summer School administration this spring produced a comprehensive report describing the "mission" of the Harvard Summer School...
NASA's budget will have to be raised to pay for such an ambitious program, perhaps even doubled from its current $11 billion a year. That will be hard in an era of budget deficits. But there is support for a Mars mission in both the House and the Senate. If the President comes out strongly for the mission, Congress should be able to find a way to fund it. One option: to siphon the money from Star Wars and other questionable defense programs...
SPACE: America should embark on a mission to Mars...