Word: rayman
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...instance, the Institute could adopt the Public Policy Center's focus on "work, family and the community," which has been the center's theme for the past five years, Director Paula Rayman says...
...independently of its controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It diagnosed its own systems and navigated with the aid of an electronic brain reminiscent of HAL, the willful computer in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. "What was science fiction a year ago is now science fact," exulted Marc Rayman, the chief mission engineer...
Sheerr explained that the endowed position was made possible in large part by gifts from Radcliffe trustees past and present. Current RPPI Director Paula Rayman will be the first person to hold the title...
Still, that constant push will add 15 to 20 m.p.h. daily to DS1's speed. "It takes three days to get to 60 m.p.h.," says Rayman, "but if you thrust for 300 days, you're up to 6,000 m.p.h. I like to call it 'acceleration with patience...
...propulsion and self-navigation, Rayman says, "is analogous to having your car find its own way from L.A. to Washington, arrive at a designated parking place, and do it all while getting 300 m.p.g." By the same analogy, could the car then drive on to other cities too? Apparently. Barring problems, DS1 will have enough fuel and navigational smarts to proceed to a burned-out comet called Wilson-Harrington in January 2001 and, as its grand finale, to Comet Borrelly later that year...