Word: nasa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ever since the cast was thrust into the world's spotlight, the show has been plagued by such petty jealousies and pungent recriminations that it might better be called One NASA Family. The latest flap came with the space agency's announcement last week that Public Affairs Officer Paul Haney, the calm, canorous "Voice of Apollo," has been ordered to a lesser post in Washington after six years at Houston's Manned Spaceflight Center. The word was that some NASA officials thought that he had become too impressed with himself. Haney, who wanted to be on hand...
...most fascinating reports at last week's New Orleans seminar of the American Cancer Society was made not by a doctor or biologist, but by an aeronautical engineer. Clarence Cone Jr., of NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia, was assigned by the space agency to study the effect on cell division of any radiation that astronauts might encounter. Cone knew that normal cells, grown in the laboratory, will not multiply and crowd one another beyond a certain point. But cancer cells lack this "contact inhibition," and are joined by intimate bonds or "bridges" of cellular material...
...turned to the same kind of tools that they and other scientists had previously used in attempts to detect Martian water: the telescope and the spectrograph, which breaks light into its rainbow (spectrum) of colors and records it on a photographic plate. With the aid of a $100,000 NASA grant, mirrors had just been refinished on the 82-in. McDonald telescope, bettering its focusing by a factor of three. The optics of the spectrograph had also been improved to enable astronomers to distinguish finer details of the dark absorption lines that would be produced in the spectrum...
...exposed film so that experts can criticize their techniques. The Apollo 8 crew became skilled enough to make a home movie-complete with hand-lettered titles and credits that were held up in front of the camera-on their way to and from the moon. After thorough editing, NASA released only selected portions of that film...
Expansion of industry in Cambridge has been rapid, especially, university-related industries which employ large numbers of upper and middle class people. The NASA project will soon bring even more of these relatively wealthy professional people into the city. In addition, much of the housing has passed into the hands of speculators who exploit the students and professional people at the expense of the poor and elderly...