Word: nasa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this followed a very shaky start. Pogue and Carr came down with motion sickness shortly after liftoff. Pressing hard to keep up with their heavy work load, the astronauts bungled several experiments and misunderstandings arose between crew and Mission Control. That, in turn, raised concern among NASA officials about the ability of the men to endure prolonged isolation and weightlessness. To compound those troubles, one of the space station's three stabilizing gyroscopes broke down and another periodically faltered -threatening the photographic studies of sun and earth, which require an extremely stable vantage point. Finally, the crew grew...
...attorney general appointed Bickford last April to study claims by the Native American Student Association (NASA) that Harvard is obligated to provide rent-free rooms for Indian students under the terms of a 1653 trust agreement...
Quinn will meet next week with Daniel Steiner '54, counsel to the University, and representatives of NASA to give both sides "a final chance to air their views before the takes any action," a source in Quinn's office said...
...member of NASA said the donation was "huge" by standards of the time. "The University's tax report for the previous year shows a net worth of 400 pounds, so the gift doubled the worth of the University," he said...
...NASA claims the University owes Indian students as much as $2.5 million and will ask the court to direct Harvard to establish 20 scholarships for Indians...