Word: nasa
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...that the traditional linking of Government salaries should be ended, and judicial and Executive pay be considered separately from that of legislators. In that, he is responding to pressure from judges and the White House, which has expressed concern about the departures of several highly skilled professionals, particularly from NASA and the National Institutes of Health. The latest loss: H. Robert Heller, a member of the Federal Reserve Board, who resigned last week, citing his stagnant...
...fastest riser on record," says Ron Moore, an astronomer at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. So fast, in fact, that astronomers are betting on 1990 or perhaps even later this year, instead of 1991, as the beginning of the maximum. And what a maximum it could be. Despite the ferocity of the March flares, Moore warns, "this cycle is still in its early phase. It's got quite a way to go." Solar buffs are speculating it might approach the violence reached by the 1957-58 maximum, which touched off five disruptive geomagnetic superstorms and vivid...
...first steps on the moon. During the next three weeks, 174 local TV stations in the U.S. will broadcast Man in Space, a one-hour video history of space exploration. Produced by TIME Magazine Television and California-based GGP, the program will feature footage from the archives of NASA, U.P.I. and other sources. The show will also include interviews with U.S. and Soviet space pioneers, who now dream of the next goal: manned exploration of Mars...
...President Bush has not yet endorsed the program, and funding is uncertain. While NASA has $24.2 million of EOS start-up money in its fiscal 1990 budget, the big push for Mission to Planet Earth will begin this fall, when the agency asks for $100 million more for 1991. That hardly seems too much for a long-term commitment to help save the planet...
Seeking a pivotal role in the campaign to save the planet, NASA is developing a long-term program of satellite flights designed to monitor intensively earth's ecological problems. Data received from sophisticated instruments aboard orbiting unmanned space platforms would help measure pollution, deforestation and other global threats. But funding for the proposal, which could eventually cost $20 billion, remains uncertain...