National Aeronautics and Space Administration Space Station Proposal: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, One-hundredth Congress, First Session : Special Hearing

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Page 22 - America has always been greatest when we dared to be great. We can reach for greatness again. We can follow our dreams to distant stars, living and working in space for peaceful, economic, and scientific gain. Tonight, I am directing NASA to develop a permanently manned space station and to do it within a decade.
Page 60 - The preservation of the role of the United States as a leader in aeronautical and space science and technology and in the application thereof to the conduct of peaceful activities within and outside the atmosphere...
Page 37 - We can follow our dreams to distant stars, living and working in space for peaceful, economic, and scientific gain. Tonight, I am directing NASA to develop a permanently manned space station, and to do it within a decade. A space station will permit quantum leaps in our research in science, communications, and in metals and lifesaving medicines which can be manufactured only in space.
Page 55 - Whatever the eventual properties of such a space station, there will probably be a set of high priority science missions that require orbits and operational support for maximum effectiveness other than those available from that station. If a space station program should be undertaken and it is meant to be useful to space science, the Space Science Board urges that the means to initiate and operate space science missions in a timely lashion and in reasonable accord with priority ordering of those...
Page 168 - Issues and Recommendations Associated with Distributed computation and Data Management Systems for the Space Sciences.
Page 55 - ... oe associated with the manned modules. If the space station is designed to provide a servicing capability beyond that provided by the shuttle, that capability should allow retrieval of instruments from a wide variety of orbits. The deployment of a space station designed in part to support space science implies an increase in the level of space science activity above that presently planned. If such a space station is to be utilized effectively, the space...
Page 56 - When the Congress created the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in 1958, it charged NASA with the responsibility to "contribute materially to ... the expansion of human knowledge of phenomena in the atmosphere and space" and to "provide for the widest practical and appropriate dissemination of information concerning its activities and results thereof.
Page 114 - AND TECHNOLOGY DIVISION, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee...
Page 16 - As an aperture to enhanced national prestige and technological development. - As a realistic and possibly unique opportunity for the United States and the Soviet Union to work together in the spotlight of world public opinion, and with other nations, on behalf of the human species. - As a model and stimulant for mutually advantageous US /Soviet cooperation here on Earth. - As a means for economic reconversion of the aerospace industry if and...
Page 16 - Summer 1983 .pocalyptic predictions require, to be taken seriously, higher standards of evidence than do assertions on other matters Carl Sagan is David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences and Director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies at Cornell University. He has played a leading role in the Mariner, Viking and Voyager expeditions to the planets, for which he has received the NASA medals for Exceptional Scientific Achievement and (twice) for Distinguished Public Service.

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