Word: nasa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moon in 1969, the corps totaled more than 50 men. Most of them were extremely skilled jet pilots and had distinguished military records, as well as extensive engineering and scientific training. Now, like the space program itself, this elite cadre is rapidly being reduced in size. By 1974, NASA expects to have no more than 14 astronauts on active flight duty...
...attrition in the ranks of America's spacemen is already becoming apparent. Apollo 12 Astronaut Dick Gordon recently quit to become executive vice president of pro football's New Orleans Saints, and Apollo 7 Astronaut Donn Eisele traded his NASA desk job for the directorship of the Peace Corps in Thailand. In August, Ed Mitchell, who staged an ESP experiment aboard Apollo 14, will leave the space program to pursue his intense interest in psychic phenomena. Apollo 15 Astronaut Jim Irwin, a Baptist lay preacher, will also retire, "to spend more time spreading the good news of Jesus...
Improbable as it now seems, a joint mission to Mars by the two rivals in space may well be one of the long-range results of last week's summit agreement on space cooperation. Says NASA Administrator James Fletcher: "I think that the first mission of U.S. and Rus sian astronauts hardly will be the last...
...high as $300 million for the U.S., but that is lower than the price tag for an all-U.S. venture of the same magnitude. The mission will also provide indirect benefits for the U.S. space program. With only one more lunar landing and three Skylab missions scheduled, NASA has been desperately looking for new manned space enterprises that will be popular with the public-and earn financial support from Congress. Thus by agreeing to join with their erstwhile rivals in a flight that is bound to stir the imaginations of both U.S. and Soviet citizens, the Russians may well...
...standards were devised to gauge efficiency in such Government operations as the minting of coins, distribution of Social Security checks, processing of FHA mortgage applications and printing of federal documents. They cover slightly more than half of the 2.6 million employees in the federal work force. The rest, including NASA scientists, FBI agents and the Supreme Court Justices, perform jobs whose productivity is still unmeasurable...