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- 1From:The American Enterprise (Vol. 9, Issue 5)The young men who worked in the Flight Operations Division in the early years of the Apollo space program were led by Walt Williams and Christopher Columbus Kraft, Jr. Williams was a tough negotiator who was not...
- 2From:Science (Vol. 275, Issue 5308) Peer-ReviewedMission to Planet Earth, a project involving the use of satellites to collect environmental information, has been opposed by Republican legislators. New provisions that reduce expenses are among factors that have changed...
- 3From:Omni (Vol. 16, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedThe story of what led up to the Apollo moon mission belies after-the-fact judgments about the ease of the project. Most great journeys of discovery are beset by political and economic hazards and NASA's efforts to...
- 4From:Lasers & Optronics (Vol. 8, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedIn 1969, the crew of Apollo 11 left the Laser Ranger Retroreflector (LRR) affixed to the moon's surface. Today, members of NASA's lunar laser ranging workgroup and scientists worldwide use the LRR as a target for...
- 5From:Information Today (Vol. 12, Issue 8)Disc Manufacturing, Inc. (DMI), an independent manufacturer of CD-ROMs headquartered in Chicago, joined forces with two multimedia companies to produce a commemorative CD-ROM for the 25th anniversary of NASA's Apollo...
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- 7From:CFO, The Magazine for Senior Financial Executives (Vol. 20, Issue 6)The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has long been criticized for its inability to manage costs. During the 1990s, faced with flat budgets and ambitious program goals. NASA adopted a management approach of...
- 8From:The Technology Teacher (Vol. 61, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedLook for two articles based on NASA research, developments, and events and their corresponding lessons each week for K-12 teachers. Materials can be accessed at: http://www.nasaexplores.com....
- 9From:The American Enterprise (Vol. 9, Issue 5)The US should develop space programs whose aim is to incrementally develop a space exploration infrastructure. The moon landing was a complex achievement but it accomplished little for space exploration. American space...
- 10From:Science (Vol. 286, Issue 5448) Peer-ReviewedThe silence from Mars is leading to a lot of talk on Earth. With two Mars probes lost in less than 3 months, NASA is hurriedly organizing a blue-ribbon panel to reexamine its ambitious plans for a series of flights that...
- 11From:Science (Vol. 241, Issue 4868) Peer-ReviewedFunds Voted for NSF, NASA After allowing only for inflation in the current year, Congress has appropriated a funding increase for the National Science Foundation's core research account that could provide for some growth...
- 12From:Science (Vol. 243, Issue 4893) Peer-ReviewedShuttle Faces Tough Schedule in 1989 The space shuttle got out from under the Challenger's shadow last year, proving with successful trips in September and December that it is ready to fly. Now in 1989 the National...
- 13From:Government Computer News (Vol. 11, Issue 16)With the award of three identical micro-computer and software contracts, NASA officials said they will try their hand a new buying strategy for keeping prices low and technology up-to-date. That strategy, which...
- 14From:Government Computer News (Vol. 11, Issue 21)The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) may implement Sense8 Corp's WorldToolKit graphics simulation package, currently undergoing beta testing at two divisions of NASA's Ames Research Center. The...
- 15From:Science (Vol. 258, Issue 5081) Peer-ReviewedWith mounting anxiety, U.S. commercial aircraft builders have been looking over their shoulder as foreign competitors erode their traditional lead in the global aviation market. But the National Research Council's...
- 16From:Government Computer News (Vol. 10, Issue 26)NASA's Johnson Space Center Mission Control officials hope the agency's Real-Time Data System (RTDS) will help retrieve the unique knowledge held by NASA Apollo-era veterans, many of whom will retire by 1995. Officials...
- 17From:Government Computer News (Vol. 12, Issue 1)The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is planning to perform up to 25 percent of its scientific computing on massively parallel supercomputers. By fall 1993, the space agency will receive delivery on...
- 18From:Science (Vol. 230) Peer-ReviewedBudget Decision Threatens Planetary Plan Officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have decided not to put a new comet rendezvous mission into the agency's fiscal year 1987 budget request,...
- 19From:Science (Vol. 232) Peer-ReviewedThird Disaster in a Row for NASA The explosion of a Delta rocket at Cape Canaveral on the evening of 3 May, coupled with the loss of the space shuttle Challenger on 28 January and the explosion of an Air Force Titan...
- 20From:Government Computer News (Vol. 8, Issue 20)Unisys to Supply NASA's Micros Unisys Corp. has won a subcontract to supply microcomputers to the NASA Jphnson Space Center in Houston. The company's Federal Information Systems Division, McLean, Va., will supply...