Word: nasa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unexpected move yesterday, President Nixon announced that the Department of Transportation will take charge of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) electronics research center in Cambridge, beginning this July...
...NASA had planned to close the center for budgetary reasons at the end of June. The transfer to the Transportation Department, which is budgeting $20 million for the center, will save 750 jobs...
...added that NASA and possibly the Air Force would also make some use of the center...
...Plummer and Carson can only theorize about their strange Martian snow. But they hope that its presence may be confirmed in 1975 when NASA's Project Viking space probe is scheduled to make the first unmanned landing on the red planet, analyze its surroundings and radio its findings back to earth...
...jammed hotels and motels included serious amateur scientists carrying altered telescopes and cameras to view or record the historic event without damage to eye or lens. The professionals took to high-altitude aircraft and isolated mountaintops to aim their instruments to best advantage. Out of Wallops Island, Va., NASA fired rockets rather than arrows into the heavens, seeking more precise knowledge of the phenomenon...