Word: nasa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...asked the Council's approval for its plan to develop the 24-acre site (the 13-acre "Golden Triangle" plus 11 acres of the original NASA quadrangle) into a business and industrial complex...
...BEEN TOLD by people in the space administration," says science fiction writer Gene Roddenberry, "that if Star Trek had still been on the air at the time, NASA would not have had a cut in its budget...
...passing Jupiter and soar out of the solar system, it too has been equipped with a message to any alien civilization that might someday intercept it. Like its twin, Pioneer will carry a plaque showing two humans (a nude male and female) and giving other information-in symbols that NASA hopes are universal-about the ship's origin (TIME, March 6, 1972). Thus any intelligent beings who happen to see the plaque may well understand the message: Pioneer was launched by four-limbed creatures living on a minor planet orbiting an average-size star...
That claim may not be as high-flown as it sounds. Dr. John Nicolaides, professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Notre Dame and a former NASA official, also became a believer after Kline sailed a model of his new glider practically the length of Notre Dame's practice football field. In subsequent wind-tunnel tests, the scientist confirmed what Kline already believed: that his wing was a true breakthrough in aerodynamic design, one that greatly resists stalling. Exactly why that is so remains a mystery...
Thir, we wouldn't call NASA itself "badly mismanaged." NASA has a lot of good systems engineers, who really want to do their part to bring about a space economy. But when it comes to communicating the role of the space program, in a larger context, or in analyzing its economic impact, both NASA and OMB have been negligent or worse...