Word: nasa
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...come not from defense work at all but from civilian contracting. Boeing has always been a vitally important supplier of high technology to the Pentagon, having produced, among other things, the Minuteman missile, the AWACS (airborne early warning radar system) and a space tug to carry satellites in NASA's Space Shuttle program. Other aerospace competitors, like McDonnell Douglas and Lockheed, do far more defense-related business. Boeing last year drew only about $1.5 billion, or 17% of total revenues, from Government contracts...
...State Department and NASA have tried to brush off these fears, insisting that the pact seeks only to ensure the orderly exploitation of the moon-which contains great stores of aluminum, titanium, magnesium and other valuable metals. Says one annoyed State Department aide: "You'll still be able to make a buck off the moon, if there's a buck to be made there." Though the treaty says no part of the moon can become the exclusive preserve of any single country or organization, it does not forbid mining or exploration there. It stipulates only that such activities...
...reports on America's first manned space launches made him "the voice of the astronauts" in the early 1960s; of a gastrointestinal hemorrhage; in Phoenix. Powers was a much decorated pilot in World War II, the Berlin Airlift and the Korean War before rocketing to fame as a NASA spokesman beginning in 1959. As Project Mercury's earth-bound "eighth astronaut," he contributed the phrase A-O.K. to the nation's vocabulary...