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Meantime, NASA is concerned about another reminder of the varied and un predictable hazards of throwing earthly spheres into space. There has been some slippage in the earth orbit of the space agency's big Skylab space station, which was launched in 1973 and should not have begun declining in its orbit until 1983. It packs no nuclear punch, but no one would want to be near it if it falls...
...phone calls, Brzezinski kept pushing for more detail. Could the uranium on board reach critical mass and explode either on re-entry or on impact with the earth? It could not, Dobrynin insisted. Brzezinski signed a National Security Council directive alerting the CIA, NASA and the Defense and State departments to the probable re-entry of Cosmos 954. Special U.S. Air Force teams trained in radiation detection and decontamination techniques were alerted to fly to any impact site...
Kohl said yesterday he expects further support from NASA after the first foray in November for additional launches and to upgrade the instrumentation...
Kohl described NASA's interest in the project as "purely academically based." He added. "It has nothing to do with the space-shot program...
...stipend which NASA gave two months ago is the fourth annual grant NASA has provided the program since Reeves and Kohl proposed...