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Last week the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced it would close the uncompleted research center in Kendall Square July 1 because of a shift of priorities in the space program. Nearly 850 NASA researchers and employees will be affected by any move to shut down the $30 million center...
...NASA administrator Thomas O. Paine announced last week that the still unfinished center would be closed in June as part of the Nixon Administration's budget cuts. Though the City has still not been formally notified, Sullivan said, "We must be prepared to deal with the problem that will in all likelihood face...
...think that, according to the contract, the City has a say in what happens to the land if NASA leaves," Robert S. Remer of the Cambridge Renewal Authority said yesterday. "But any new proposal will have to be approved by the City Council, the state, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development because the original project was an unbar renewal project...
...Committee for the NASA site, a coalition of several Cambridge
...Various other proposals and rumors about the future use of the site have risen since NASA announced its departure. The Boston Globe yesterday reported that Charles Stark Draper of M. I. T.'s Instrumentation Lab was in Houston, Texas, for informal consultation with NASA officials about acquiring the center for the I-Lab. This report prompted simultaneous denials from Draper and Howard Johnson, president...