Word: programming
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...public interest unless it secured adequate subsidy, insurance's against loss, and so on. The federal government must do this. We wouldn't have an airplane industry in this country today if the federal government hadn't subsidized it. We wouldn't have had a space program without the federal government. We couldn't have a highway program without the federal government...
...dismissal divided the Washington press corps, and even got a lively airing on Woestendiek's former program, Newsroom. Those who backed the firing, though not necessarily its peremptory manner, argued that if newsmen are to judge the ethics of others, they should be absolutely free of taint themselves...
...inside the tanks, they say, a fragment of metal-perhaps a rivet or a piece from an internal cooling fan-could have flaked off. As this chip sheared away, there may have been a spark or another kind of combustion, Dr. Rocco Petrone, director of the Apollo program, told Congress at week's end. The additional heat would have caused the oxygen to expand, and perhaps build up pressure in the tank to the point where the gas burst out with explosive force...
Martian Microbe. Though the effort to reduce the likelihood of such failures could delay next October's flight of Apollo 14, NASA Administrator Thomas Paine thinks that the moon program can be kept on schedule. Indeed, the space agency got some rare encouragement to press ahead with Apollo from an often critical scientific community. Reporting puzzling age differences in lunar dust gathered at the Ocean of Storms and at the Sea of Tranquillity, Caltech Geologist Gerald Wasserburg made a strong plea at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union for continued manned lunar exploration. "The moon," he told...
Some Congressmen may be harder to convince. Far more interested in terrestrial problems, these critics are cool toward both the moon program and deeper manned probes into space. Apollo 13's flight cost $380 million. And the flight's failure has made them even more dubious about space exploration. "I cannot justify approving moneys to find out whether or not there is some microbe on Mars," complained Manhattan Democrat Edward Koch, a member of the House Committee on Science and Astronautics, "when in fact I know there are rats in Harlem apartments...