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...rapidly dwindling, but the President announced the inclusion of $40 million in start-up funding in the fiscal 1982 budget for VOIR. That is an acronym for the Venus Orbiting Imaging Radar mission, a new project that had been eagerly sought by J.P.L., along with an unmanned probe to intercept Halley's comet when it returns in 1986. So far the U.S. has refused to authorize the tantalizing mission to the comet. Said J.P.L. Director Bruce Murray after the President's announcement: "We can use the money...
...only planetary probe now on the drawing boards at J.P.L. is Project Galileo, a scheme to place in orbit around Jupiter a semipermanent observatory. Scheduled for launch in 1984, Galileo is likely to be delayed. Its launch vehicle is the space shuttle. But that much troubled enterprise, plagued by engine problems and difficulties with its crucial heat-shielding, may not make its first orbital test flight before next summer...
...Justice Department lawyers scoff at the offer. His real motive, they insist, is to trick the committee into giving him immunity from prosecution for whatever he says in the hearing room - and then talk about every charge against him, no matter how irrelevant to the committee's probe. He then more than likely could not be prosecuted. Says a Government lawyer...
...spokesman for the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in Washington, D.C., said yesterday other space projects, including a $600 million Venus probe, have consumed funds the $250 million Haley's comet program would require. The OMB will make its final decision in January when it completes the final budget for the 1982 fiscal year...
...European Scientific Agency mission, a Franco-Soviet probe, and a Japanese project all are being planned to observe the comet, which orbits the sun every 76 years...