Word: nasa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past two weeks, Foale, 40, has remained all but incommunicado, spending his time either with his family or at NASA debriefings. Last Thursday, however, he sat down with TIME for an exclusive interview, his first since returning from his nearly five months aloft. With the help of Foale's recollections, as well as those of his crewmates, it is now possible to piece together the events surrounding last June's accident and reconstruct humanity's most dangerous day in space in more than a decade...
...imagination of the American public is shivering in sub-zero Martian temperatures, cut off from home, unable to send home pictures or receive the orders programmers are sending it to hit its restart button. The plucky Sojourner rover is left to run aimless circles round the craft ? and now NASA is about to give up on both of them...
Reasons for the veto, an Administration spokesman explained, included concern that the project might violate the Antiballistic Missile Treaty, that it was a thinly disguised supplement to other Pentagon projects and more logically belonged in the NASA budget. Another--but unspoken--reason, say scientists familiar with the budget debate, is the "giggle factor," the tendency of many in government to scoff at the danger posed by asteroids...
...attempt to assess the danger, a few dedicated astronomers have been scanning the skies, borrowing time on large telescopes, building their own detectors out of off-the-shelf parts and barely scraping by on the $1 million or so that NASA contributes annually to the total effort. Their goal is to identify and determine the orbits of the still undiscovered "near Earth" asteroids. That would enable them to predict, sometimes many years in advance, the possibility of a disastrous encounter. Those predictions and knowledge gained from missions like Clementine II would give Earth's defenders time to mount the appropriate...
...flight and power that Rauschenberg combined with a photo of a small child gesturing upward and another of distant galaxies. Considerately, he supplied the bird with a pillow hanging on a string, in case it crashed. Canyon was the first of a series of allusions to space exploration--the NASA program in the '60s became one of Rauschenberg's main themes...