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First of all, we definitely do not advocate a space program of $10 billion government spending per year. We do advocate the development of a fully re-usable space shuttle. According to figures from NASA and. OMB, reprinted in many issues of Science News, the total development cost of such a shuttle would run to $12-14 billion total over a period of seven years; this would amount to $2 billion per year, less than two-thirds of the present NASA budget. Our point is that we can preserve our hope for future economic growth for less than...
...earthquakes and other natural disasters ($18 million); drug control and rehabilitation ($2,000,000); and research into new methods of crime prevention and control ($12 million). At the same time, the Administration is cutting 22% off the Environmental Protection Agency's research funds, chopping another $400 million from NASA'S budget, and reducing by $42.8 million its support of the eight branches of the National Institutes of Health that are not involved in cancer or heart research. No less significant is drastic reduction in funding for fellowships to train young scientists...
Scientists from NASA'S Ames Research Center reported that the 570-lb., saucer-shaped ship was hit no more than once a day even in the most dense part of the belt, which consists mostly of tiny particles, rather than the chunky rocks that peril science-fiction space travelers. None of the impacts were made by fragments larger than a grain of sand, and none did any detectable damage to the thinly shielded $50 million craft. By carefully planning Pioneer's trajectory, controllers kept the ship at least 4,000,000 miles from those larger (at least seven...
...resembled volcanic vents on earth, they speculated that volcanic activity might well have occurred on the moon as recently as 200,000 or 300,000 years ago. That would have upset the widely held view that the moon has been largely dormant for more than 3 billion years. Said NASA Geochemist Robin Brett: "If the material is indeed so young, we may have witnessed one of the important finds in Apollo geology...
Slayton passed his examinations with flying colors, and last spring NASA again cleared him. Still, his chances of getting an assignment seemed as remote as the moon. All places on the remaining lunar expeditions were already filled; crews had also been picked for the three earth-orbiting Skylab missions. Only one faint chance remained, and Slayton was not about to miss it for lack of qualifications. Even before Washington and Moscow firmly agreed last year to undertake the historic joint mission, Deke began to study Russian...