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...NASA was actually founded in 1915 and at the time was known as the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics - or NACA. Its job was to keep the nation abreast of the latest developments in the then-nascent technology of powered flight. NACA was established with good intentions but operated mostly as a bureaucratic backwater, a government body that couldn't hope to keep up with a rapidly evolving private industry. In 1957, however, all that changed. That was the year the U.S.S.R. launched Sputnik, the first Earth satellite - and in the process, scared the daylights out of the U.S. President...
...operate your missions from the same place you launch them. Vice President Lyndon Johnson, however, didn?t see things that way. If federal space goodies were going to be handed out, he wanted his native Texas to get its share. And as de facto head of the nation's space effort as well as the former Democratic leader of the Senate, he had the clout and friends to make that happen...
...time when the promise of biomedical research has never been greater, our nation risks sending a signal to our best and brightest young researchers that the funds won’t be there to support their hugely important career pursuits,” Faust said in her welcoming remarks...
...Arboretum. “A lot agricultural nitrogen has run off into aquatic ecosystems and has destroyed the native ecology.” Valkenburg touts the success of this project as yet another example of Harvard’s increasing commitment to being environmentally-sensitive. “The nation and the world look to places like Harvard to set standards for how major environmental shifts like this happen,” Valkenburg said. “The Yard is Harvard’s most emblematic icon and it’s important that the way that it is cared...
...think McCain suspended his campaign for the good of the bailout, or do you think it was a political stunt? It is the sort of thing that does look too cute by half. Too cute by half is not really what a great nation needs in a crisis. I have an extremely liberal view of politics in that I expect a lot of mischief, but we've gotta bring our best selves and our most adult selves to this thing. We're a nation of people who turn 45 and want to dress like children. We're a nation...