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Lurking behind the debate about out-of-sight overhead rates and suspicious- sounding bills for flowers and bedsheets is a deeper issue: the high cost of modern research. During the Sputnik era, Washington launched an ambitious university building program, which it abruptly abandoned in the late 1960s. Since then, private universities have had to raise their own construction and renovation funds. At the same time, they have had to grapple with unrealistic government regulations that require them to write off building costs on a 50- year timetable, despite the fact that most scientific facilities outlive their usefulness in just...
SOVIET SPACE, Museum of Science, Boston. A behind-the-scenes look at the Soviet space program, including a model of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth, and a "space bicycle" used for travel outside the space station Mir. Through Sept...
...sooner the better, some might think. The '50s and '60s landscape was one of atomic optimism on the go, of Sputnik-like motels and space-race tail fins. The style captured an attitude of innocent adventure in a TV fantasy of stucco and neon. Could Wally and the Beaver come to serious harm in a drive-in with a giant ice-cream cone for a roof? George Jetson, it seems, could have been the master architect of the whole doo-wop decade. Granted, one thing to be said for those stylistic oddities is that they extended a warmer welcome than...
Under Whipple's direction, astrophysics at the observatories expanded at an unprecedented rate. Following the world's first human-made satellite launch in 1957--the Soviet Union's Sputnik--the center also received an infusion of government and private funds when previously complacent America plunged into space technology...
...Nixon (Quemoy and Matsu). Both candidates dedicated to strong national defense. The Soviet Union and the Cold War and the nuclear threat dominated everyone's horizon, with anxieties rising over the U-2 spy plane that the Soviets shot down on May 1, 1960, and the Soviets' launching of Sputnik 1 three years earlier. The rocket that took the satellite aloft punched a hole through American self-confidence and made education a central issue...