Word: nasa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although development continues, the experiments could have been completed and flown long before now if they had received adequate financial backing from NASA--comparable to previous levels, CFA scientists...
Gorenstein's LAMAR, and two other CFA experiments, have been out "in limbo", according to one scientist. Funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) since late 1979, these projects have progressed slowly in recent years...
...Earth NASA directed recovery ships to mark the spot in the Atlanta Ocean where the shuttle's twin rocket boosters sank after launch on Sunday...
...adult, abandoned by her husband, has enough problems holding a job while raising three kids. She is too busy and perhaps too mature to notice E.T., even when he is literally under her nose. And there are the cold, calculating adults, represented cloddishly by the nameless, faceless band of NASA men. They are not only aware that E.T. is in town, but also want to trap him and do God-knows-what to him for their own purposes...
...film's message is underscored inadvertently by the players creating the story. In general, the adult actors perform adequately at best. Dee Wallace, as the mother, appears too confused herself to carry off the confused parent role. The NASA hit squad pops up awkwardly without regard to the rest to the plot. What little acting the white-suited villians do is wooden and stereotypical. But the kids. They are adorable, and appropriately, they make the show...