Word: nasa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time, had been measuring the amount of ultraviolet light reflected from the earth's atmosphere. Because ozone absorbs ultraviolet, any decrease in ozone would result in an increase in the ultraviolet "seen" by the satellite. Sure enough, after months of analyzing data from the Nimbus, two NASA scientists, Donald Heath and Arlin Krueger, determined that the solar flare had depleted the ozone in that region by about...
After a series of unsuccessful efforts to clean up the machinery of government--Defense Department and NASA contracting, conflict of interest problems, questionable land deals, tax evasion--Mollenhoff resigned in May, 1970, frustrated by his lack of clout and effectiveness. "I had never realized before," he reflected in the interview, "that even though you have a title and an office in the White House, you can get boxed out to the point of having no authority or influence. One had to be on the inside to get the full flavor of the enormous power and great reverence for the President...
...National Science Foundation donated the next highest amount of money, giving nearly $6 million in grants and contracts. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) granted around $3 million...
Scott said that one major NASA grant was for research involving U.S. satellites by the Smithsonian and Harvard College Observatories...
...December 1969, after gradually phasing out the project, NASA withdrew totally, leaving the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority to re-plan the entire project at a severely inflated cost...