Word: nasa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sobering news even for Washington cynics. NASA officials were one Government group considered to be impervious to scandal. Last week, though, a federal grand jury in Los Angeles indicted James M. Beggs, NASA'S administrator and a former executive vice president of General Dynamics, the third largest U.S. defense manufacturer. Although the charge had nothing to do with NASA business, it was still a blow to agency morale and prestige...
General Dynamics and Beggs, 59, who almost immediately took a leave of absence from NASA, quickly denied the charges. Said Beggs: "I have not been involved in any criminal wrongdoing . . . I do not intend to leave, and this is not the first step to a resignation." Echoed General Dynamics: "The issue is a highly sophisticated regulatory and accounting matter, which should be resolved in a civil forum, not in a criminal case...
...NASA scientists insist that given the briefness and the danger of the flybys, Astro-1 could actually end up gleaning more information about Halley's than the probes do. "Our mission may not be as dramatic," says Knox Long, a Johns Hopkins University scientist on the Astro project, "but we're getting the most bang for the buck...
Although for budgetary reasons it opted in 1981 against launching a Halley's probe of its own, NASA nonetheless remains smack in the middle of the action. The agency plans to dedicate part of two shuttle missions, including the flight that will boost aloft Teacher Sharon Christa McAuliffe, to comet- related experiments. The Solar Max satellite, brought back to life l8 months ago by a shuttle repair crew and now performing its normal duty of monitoring the sun, will examine Halley's off and on for about 60 days. Pioneer 12, in orbit around Venus, will watch Halley's when...
...such Mountie movies as Call of the Klondike (1950) and Northwest Territory (1952), onetime radio entertainer, and lately goodwill ambassador for Cypress Gardens, an entertainment park in central Florida; in an automobile accident en route to view last week's space shuttle lift-off as an invited guest of NASA; in Titusville...