Word: nasa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Institutes of Health, lacks the means to exploit many of its important findings. Last year Mrs. Lasker picked up some powerful support in Congress when a special commission put forth her favorite proposal: a $6 billion investment in cancer research during the coming decade and creation of a new, NASA-type National Cancer Authority outside the NIH to oversee the search for a cure. Senator Edward Kennedy, who succeeded Texas' Ralph Yarborough as chairman of the Senate subcommittee on health, put his own imprimatur on the commission's proposal and submitted the recommendations as legislation...
...Administration officials feared that creation of the superagency would trigger demands for similar organiza tions to fight heart disease and other illnesses. That in turn might lead to the ultimate dismemberment of the NIH, which conducts a wide variety of medical and training programs. They also worried that the NASA-type agency proposed by Kennedy would rapidly develop its own constituency on Capitol Hill, where few Congressmen would publicly oppose rising expenditures aimed at curing cancer...
Like Robots. Some scientist-astronauts grumble that the scientific ineptness of some of the pilots has already been costly. Apollo 14 Astronauts Al Shepard and Ed Mitchell aligned antennas so poorly that only weak radio signals from lunar experiments are being received on earth. Says one NASA scientist of their performance: "They acted like robots, picked up rocks, put out equipment and took pictures. But they didn't really see anything...
Though Salyut is only a third of the size of the proposed U.S. Skylab space station, scheduled to be launched in 1973, NASA officials were clearly impressed by the Soviet achievement. The feat stirred less comment in budget-conscious Washington. With the Apollo program coming quickly to an end-the third from last U.S. moon shot will lift off in July-Congress and the Administration seem unwilling to engage the Soviet Union in any new space races. Anticipating bigger and better Soviet space stations, U.S. space officials point out that it now seems more likely than ever that the next...
...added action would undoubtedly cause the long lines at the O.T.B. windows to grow even longer. Five months ago, Samuels boasted that O.T.B.'s computers would be "the most sophisticated in the world this side of NASA. There's nothing they can't do." As of last week, they were doing exactly that-nothing. Still waiting for the computers to be hooked up with the tracks, O.T.B. clerks have had to do the calculating manually, causing all sorts of delays and foulups. But despite its problems, O.T.B. is out of the starting gates, and with a little...