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...that I mean a Boeing 747 is not state-of-the-art in anything--NASA does things that are much more fancy. But if you've got something that has to fly every day and carry hundreds and hundreds of passengers, it's almost always going to have proven technology that is somewhat older than what someone could imagine today," he adds...
...Mission to Planet Earth would go a long way toward answering critics who have insisted that the U.S. space program has for years had no clear mission. If NASA gets the go-ahead, the project, which would cost an estimated $20 billion over the next two decades, could begin by 1996 with the launching of the first of a pair of 15-ton unmanned space platforms called the earth- observing system (EOS). Designed to operate for at least 15 years, the satellites would give scientists their first comprehensive look at just how the world's environment changes over time. Detectors...
Just since November, more than 30 top officials at the Defense Department, the Internal Revenue Service and NASA have announced their resignations rather than abide by tough new ethics laws designed to block federal employees from using their jobs as a fast track to riches in the private sector. Taken aback by the departures and complaints by defense contractors, Congress last week voted to delay the new measures for 60 days...
...game more quickly. The clubs used for driving and for long fairway shots are still known as "woods," but they strike truer now because they are made of metal. And the balls have been redesigned as well. Early last year Wilson Sporting Goods hired Gail Jonkouski, a former NASA engineer, to design a golf ball that would fly farther and straighter than balls then in use. With the help of a computer, Jonkouski rearranged the dimples on the balls to reduce air friction...
Some of the benefits of 3-D graphics have more to do with science fiction than with science. At NASA's Ames Research Center, visitors who put on special computerized gloves and helmets can actually experience what it would be like to explore various 3-D worlds -- a space station orbiting the earth, for example, or the landscape of Mars. The gloves are equipped with magnetic position trackers and fiber-optic sensors that telegraph every movement of the hand directly to the machine. The helmet is equipped with a pair of stereoscopic TV projectors, one for each eye, that...