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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Facing a grandstand full of reporters in the shadow of the 12-story Vehicle Assemble Building, officials from the National Aeronaities and Space Administration (NASA) and veteran astronauts responded to the media's occasionally critical pelts with down-home confidents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NASA Officials Predict Shuttle Success | 4/10/1981 | See Source »

...space shuttle, however, will serve as a laboratory to help astronauts adapt to weightlessness after the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) begins routine flights...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Harvard Project in Shuttle's Spacelab Aims to Smooth Adaptations to Space | 4/8/1981 | See Source »

...zero-gravity, potassium loss experiment joins projects researching the causes for spacesickness and calcium loss in the bone as primary projects in NASA's attempts to make space more friendly to man. Morre-ede said yesterday...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Harvard Project in Shuttle's Spacelab Aims to Smooth Adaptations to Space | 4/8/1981 | See Source »

Citing the $603.5 million budget cuts of NASA by the Reagan administration and the planned 23 per cent reduction in the funds of the agency's science projects, Moore-ede said. "There is not enough general awareness of the research potential provided by Spacelab and the benefits from this research...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Harvard Project in Shuttle's Spacelab Aims to Smooth Adaptations to Space | 4/8/1981 | See Source »

...programs are central to implementing the avowed US counter force doctrine of fighting "limited nuclear wars." Much has been made of another type of satellite being tested by the Soviet Union--interceptor/destructor or, "killer" satellites--although little mention has been made of the fact that as early as 1965 NASA's Gemini program, with its rendezvous between two satellites, successfully demonstrated US interceptor/destructor capability. Now the US military wants to use the space shuttle to make destruction of Soviet satellites a real possibility...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chaisson and the Shuttle | 4/4/1981 | See Source »

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