Word: nasa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Paine, NASA's boss when we landed on the moon, came through the capital last week, echoing the same dim thoughts. NASA has tried to do too much with too little. Its $7.7 billion budget is not chicken feed. But it is not much; after all, we are spending $25 billion for subsidies that are not solving the farm problem. A NASA budget of $10 billion or even $20 billion, taken from other places, is perfectly parsimonious considering the dividends...
From Houston comes the clear voice of Alcestis Oberg, space author: "I protest the graying of NASA, the aging of thought, the middle-aged acquiescence to discouraging circumstances, the paralysis of spirit and the stagnation of vision." We should join this courageous woman...
...recently as mid-July, a NASA spokesman had announced that examination of a tape recovered from the wreckage (and restored by IBM engineers after its long immersion in seawater) indicated that the crew members were "unaware of the events associated with the tragedy." But the agency admitted last week that a more detailed analysis had uncovered a voice recorded three seconds after Scobee's final words, just before all data were cut off. The voice was that of Pilot Michael Smith. His exclamation...
...NASA announcement indicates that at least some of the crew were functioning for several seconds after the explosion and possibly longer. Evidence that they had survived the blast came from four emergency air packs, connected to the astronauts' helmets during launch, that were pulled months ago from the ocean. Three of the packs, designed to supply air if the astronauts had to exit the shuttle on the launch pad through noxious fumes, had been manually activated. One was identified as Smith's. Since the Challenger pilot, locked into his safety harness, could not have reached the control, it must have...
...member of the Rogers commission has expressed anger at the belated revelations about the Challenger crew. "NASA is finally in the process of coming clean," he commented. "They even tried to stonewall us (the commission) on the tapes, telling us that they never release tapes. You are going to learn eventually that some of the crew lived longer than others, and that...