Word: planet
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...another money-saving move, the agency's Mission to Planet Earth program is being dramatically revised. Originally it was going to use a few big, expensive satellites, each loaded with multiple instruments, to monitor the earth's environment for potentially disruptive changes in climate and pollution levels. But when the mission begins in earnest in 1998, it will rely instead on small satellites, each doing at most a handful of tasks...
Perhaps the best single illustration of NASA's strategy for the future is the SeaStar satellite, a part of the Mission to Planet Earth. Built under dramatically streamlined management, SeaStar does double duty as a scientific instrument and a boost for U.S. competitiveness -- the "dual use" concept that President Clinton wants all U.S. research labs to embrace...
...past the execution would have been a nightmare. "For Mars Observer," says Ghassem Asrar, the program scientist for Mission to Planet Earth, " NASA was involved in every step from start to orbit." Obedient to its bureaucratic, cover-your-backside tradition, the agency demanded that the companies building the Observer, led by General Electric and Martin Marietta, submit endless reams of paperwork documenting every last nut and bolt...
...pauses, and as if from another planet, he intones, "It's really something you kind of have to experience to understand...
...National Junior Championship at the 135lb. class, fighting under the lights of the newly opened Chicago Stadium. He has over 80 professional boxing victories to his name and coached the Burmese Olympic boxing team at the Munich Games of 1972. He is likely the only person on the planet who initially began boxing because he had broken his nose playing both football and baseball and was looking for a less damaging alternative. Five years ago, Tommy became the only person ever to knock in two holes-in-one in the same round of golf at Winchester Country Club. Today...