Word: nasa
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...schedule another hearing in the summer, hoping hot weather would make people pay attention to the greenhouse issue. Sure enough, when the hearing convened last June 23, the thermometer read 99 degrees F, a Washington record for that day. The room was packed when James Hansen, head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, turned global warming into front- page news at last. "It is time to stop waffling so much," he declared. "The evidence is pretty strong that the greenhouse effect is here...
...multinational research projects and centralize essential data on the state of the world. Such an umbrella program could pool the results of hundreds of existing research efforts. A prime candidate for this program would be the Mission to Planet Earth, recommended by former astronaut Sally Ride, which would use NASA facilities to study the earth from space. In addition to improving knowledge of the earth's ills, an International Earthwatch Program could provide the basis for a widespread awareness-building campaign aimed at preparing public opinion for the sacrifices and life-style changes that will be necessary in the coming...
...coat and piled into the exhaust nozzle of a space rocket that is to ferry an important communications satellite into orbit next February. The accident caused a crack in the heat-resistant carbon nozzle that was too serious to be fixed with a simple patch, and NASA will have to replace the entire first stage of the expensive rocket. Total cost: about $6 million...
...leaky tank in the ground system caused a further delay Friday. NASA temporarily halted fueling and sent out a special team to tighten a fitting on an oxygen tank...
Four hours into the flight, NASA reported that "all systems of the orbiter are performing satisfactorily." The next report will come 24 hours before Atlantis lands at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. The government did not reveal the duration of the flight, but it is expected to last three to five days...