Word: nasa
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...Union address in January. But the President's speech passed with no mention of the much touted space initiative. When the plan was finally unveiled at the White House last week, the reason for delay became clear: the President's new space policy so downplayed the role of NASA, once the unchallenged ruler of the space program, that NASA Administrator James Fletcher had been waging a last- ditch fight against aspects of it. Even so, in the end good soldier Fletcher declared, "We're all working together. The military is going to be in space, science is going...
...world's leading space-faring nation, and more than half fear that the U.S. has slipped behind the Soviets. Washington's dilemma has been how to maintain pre-eminence in space without exacerbating record budget deficits. Reagan's answer surprised no one: privatize wherever possible. True, his plan reasserted NASA's central role in manned space flight. It called for $1 billion in funding next year for the agency's ambitious, $30 billion space- station project and $100 million to start exploring Pathfinder technologies to establish a base on the moon and send missions to Mars. It called on NASA...
Federal dollars have already been committed to the Industrial Space Facility, an unmanned mini-space station designed by Houston's Space Industries, Inc. The Reagan initiative calls on NASA to become the primary tenant aboard such a facility to the tune of some $140 million a year -- the major complaint of NASA's Fletcher. The agency recently has been fighting ISF for fear that ax-wielding Government budgeteers will see the laboratory as an alternative to its own expensive space lab. Says one Commerce Department source bluntly: "NASA fears it's an effort to kill the space station...
...NASA's concern was understandable. Last fall Congress slashed $342 million from the agency's $767 million space-station funding request, then voted $25 million in start-up money for ISF. NASA resistance to the mini-station had prompted a group of Senators led by Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire to hold up some $97 million in funding until the space agency would go along with the smaller project...
Budget realism becomes the test as the candidates stake out positions on taxes, trade and Social Security. -- Once again, Ronald Reagan will ask for a line- item budget veto. This year, more in Congress are listening. -- Eager to launch a refitted shuttle, NASA' S contractors have let the schedule override safety concerns. -- In Utah, polygamists defy police in a log cabin siege...