Word: nasa
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...official of the Space Science Working Group, established in 1981 to centralize the colleges' leverage in Washington, will ask a House sub-committee to add 539 million to the Reagan Administration's fiscal year 1984 budget for NASA research...
...NASA turned over formal control of the Landsat program to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, an arm of the Department of Commerce, which also runs the U.S. weather satellites. Last week NASA officials released a portfolio of Landsat images, three of which are shown on this page. As NASA's Landsat program manager, Harry Mannheimer, put it, "We can look down through a column of air and see the world...
...scientists are walking three feet in the air. They're absolutely ecstatic." So said a NASA spokesman last week as data began pouring down from one of the most unusual instruments ever launched into space. The cause of the jubilation is a one-ton cylindrical-shaped object called the Infrared Astronomical Satellite, or IRAS. A first of its kind, the solar-powered spy in the sky will literally show the universe in a new light...
Even while it took pride in the performance of the infrared telescope, NASA last week was confronted by new difficulties with the troubled space shuttle Challenger. Standing forlornly on its Florida pad since Nov. 30, the gleaming $1 billion orbiter will probably not be launched before mid-March at the earliest, two months late. Reason: a hazardous hydrogen leak required the removal last week of one of Challenger's three main rocket engines, a task never before attempted while a shuttle was still...
...NASA last week decided to forgo a test firing of the new $30 million engine. Two other test firings, at $1.5 million each, have already taken place. But the space agency still must weigh new quality-control procedures. The crack that ultimately caused the leak was discovered during the engine's manufacture at Rockwell International's Rocketdyne plant in Canoga Park, Calif. The crack was welded, but it was not considered necessary to take the additional step of hardening the weld (cost: about $200,000). Now the space agency faces extra bills totaling about $4 million...