Word: nasa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the $85 million dollar NASA-funded project has been directed by a consortium of four groups--CRA, MIT's Center for Space Research, Columbia University and the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland--the main impetus for the mission has come from 60 Garden St. Giacconi is the overall director of the Einstein Observatory, while scientific responsibility rests with Harvey Tannenbaum, an associate of the Harvard College Observatory...
...unemployment). But the only governmental remedy to America's declining rate of technological change would be to spend more, not less; to subsidize the turnover of older, less world-competitive industries that can still operate profitably in the protected domestic market, like steel, or to encourage research and innovation. NASA is a prime example of an effective technology-producing government agency that is highly susceptible to budget-slashing. Yet it is in such advanced technology as computers and electronics that our greatest comparative advantage lies...
Boyle's Law. If not controlled, work will flow to the competent man until he submerges.−Charles Boyle of NASA...
...Lake, Ont, Canadian and American agencies are launching 34 atmospheric rockets to look for other surprises. The U.S. Navy, for example, wants to learn how electrical changes in the ionosphere, some apparently connected to fluctuations in solar radiation, disrupt radio contact between ground stations and satellites. In a NASA-owned Learjet, Physicist T. Allan Clark of the University of Calgary will study the sun's eruptions, seeking links between this activity and terrestrial climate...
...such confirmation occurred? Robert Jastrow, director of NASA'S Goddard Institute for Space Studies, has published a small and curious book called God and the Astronomers, in which he suggests that the Bible was right after all, and that people of his own kind, scientists and agnostics, by his description, now find themselves confounded. Jastrow blows phantom kisses like neutrinos across the chasm between science and religion, seeming almost wistful to make a connection. Biblical fundamentalists may be happier with Jastrow's books than are his fellow scientists. He writes operatically: "For the scientist who has lived...