Word: nasa
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...type will blow; scientists have had much better luck with volcanoes in Hawaii. But the effort has hardly been a waste of time. Says U.S.G.S. Geologist Robert Christiansen: "It has taught us that volcanic hazards are real in the U.S." More probing will be done in November at a NASA conference about the atmospheric and climatic effects of Mount St. Helens, with a view to decoding whatever messages the volcano sent on that fateful May day when the earth opened and the forces of creation were furiously unleashed...
Because much of the prosecution's evidence consists of FBI video tapes and sound recordings of agents' meetings with the defendants, the Brooklyn courtroom looks like a NASA tracking station, with ten television monitors, four loudspeakers and a control panel in the center of the room. The evidence flickers before the jurors, each of whom wears headphones. Weinberg's face never appears on the screens, but his thick Brooklyn accent is heard frequently...
Even the cool NASA professionals in the control room were not unmoved. With the orbiter's death came the end of another phase of the $1 billion Project Viking, the most ambitious mission to another planet to date. Back in 1975, twin spacecraft, each consisting of an orbiter and a lander, were sent off to Mars. A key objective: to determine if the Red Planet harbors life. After going into Martian orbit ten months later, the mated spacecraft split apart. Their spider-legged landers touched down on the surface, while the orbiters continued patrolling overhead, mapping the planet with...
...crash 14 months ago in Chicago of an American Airlines DC-10, a disaster that killed 273 people when the plane's engine fell off, may be one such case. After six months of study, a blue-ribbon panel of 13 aviation experts headed by George M. Low, NASA's longtime No. 2 man and now president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, last week released a firmly critical 118-page report that could lead to a major overhaul of the Federal Aviation Administration, the Government's principal agency for policing the skies. Its chief conclusion: the FAA, from...
...appalled that NASA and the Government are thinking of sending nuclear wastes into space [June 2]. Just because we have carelessly polluted our earth, we have no right to pollute the universe...