Word: nasa
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...NASA is poised to make a similar mistake with its next major project, the $32 billion Freedom space station, scheduled to go into full operation in the late 1990s. Like the shuttle, it is being presented as a widely versatile project that will provide for the needs of scientists, engineers and space explorers. But without a focused, long-range program, those needs are not clear...
...recent years, our reliance on the astronaut-piloted programs may even have hindered the march of progress. The shuttle program, consuming about 40 percent of NASA's annual budget, has often detracted from smaller, less glamourous efforts...
Programs like the Galileo probe to Jupiter and the Hubble space telescope have been delayed more than three years since the Challenger explosion because NASA never planned on using conventional rockets to launch them...
...account of the Challenger investigation, Nobel Laureate Richard P. Feynman described a curious battle that occurred as the presidential commission was compiling its final report. The commission agreed on nine recommendations to the president, but the chair, William P. Rogers, decided to add a tenth, praising NASA and urging continued government support. His motive? To add balance to the report's generally critical findings...
Among the first to feel the effects of the flare's fury was the orbiting Solar Max. As the radiation saturated Solar Max's instruments, a NASA spokesman reported, "the satellite was stunned for a minute and then recovered." Heated by the incoming blast of radiation, the upper fringe of the atmosphere expanded farther into space. Low-orbiting satellites, encountering that fringe and running into increasing drag, slowed and dropped into still lower orbits. A secret Defense Department satellite began a premature and fatal tumble, and the tracking system that keeps exact tabs on some 19,000 objects in earth...