Word: nasa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Each casket, bearing the remains of one of Challenger's crew, was accompanied by an astronaut. Top officials of NASA, the space agency whose reputation has been badly tarnished by the disaster, also boarded the giant C- 141 en route to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. It was Dover that received the bodies of the 241 U.S. service members, most of them Marines, killed in Beirut in 1983 and the 248 U.S. Army Airborne victims of last year's plane crash in Gander, Newfoundland...
Abrahamson, who formerly served as associate administrator of NASA in charge of Space Shuttle operations, echoed President Reagan's support of the Strategic Defense Initiative as a means of increasing international stability...
...Treasury, Secretary James Baker is managing the dollar's decline in value against foreign currencies with virtually no kibitzing from the White House across the street. "The President trusts Jim," shrugged a Treasury executive. Just a few blocks away at the beleaguered NASA a high official declared, "Without the President's unshakable faith that we can still do the job in space we would have been destroyed by now." Off in the Mediterranean on board ships and carriers of the Sixth Fleet, the words spoken by Reagan during last month's Gulf of Sidra incident were like a surge...
...Leaving aside the relative merits of a sound knowledge of computer programming in the post-PC era, I would submit that the knowledge required to pass the computer Quantitative Reasoning Requirement is of absolutely no practical use. I suspect, for instance, that NASA has already learned how to program a computer to countdown from a given number, and print "Blast-off!" in flashing letters on its computer screens...
...restive 96-member astronaut corps. He piloted the pioneering second shuttle launch in 1981, when the test missions were so hazardous that they were equipped with ejection seats. He also commanded a 1983 flight of the doomed Challenger. In a speech televised from Houston's Johnson Space Center to NASA employees around the nation, Truly promised that future shuttle launches would provide "an acceptable margin of safety to the vehicle and crew...