NASA
From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Date: 2008
NASA see National Aeronautics and Space Administration .
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... the opportunity to express my views on the future of NASA and our space program on the occasion of NASA's 40th birthday. I come to this task by a curious route - the Internet. I am a former NASA civil servant and space life scientist who now runs ... develops the content for Internet. I also run several ...
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NASA FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES:GREGORY D. KUTZ
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... like to welcome the witnesses to today's hearing on NASA's Earth science program. We have a distinguished panel ... just for the record, I'd like for you to know that. NASA's Earth science program has long been one of NASA's core missions, yet NASA's core missions are increasingly threatened by ...
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U.S. SENATOR GEORGE ALLEN (R-VA) CHAIRMAN U.S. SENATOR GEORGE ALLEN (R-VA) HOLDS HEARING ON NASA
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... TECHNOLOGY AND SPACE HOLDS HEARING ON NASA'S AERONAUTICS PROGRAM APRIL 24, 2001 SPEAKERS ... CREEDON DIRECTOR LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER, NASA ED BOLEN PRESIDENT GENERAL AVIATION MANUFACTURERS ... ROY V. HARRIS JR. CHIEF TECHNICAL ADVISOR NASA AERONAUTICS SUPPORT TEAM DAVID O. SWAIN ...
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U.S. REPRESENTATIVE KEN CALVERT (R-CA) CHAIRMAN U.S. REPRESENTATIVE KEN CALVERT (R-CA) HOLDS A HEARING ON NASA'S WORKFORCE
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... SUBCOMMITTEE ON SPACE AND AERONAUTICS HOLDS A HEARING ON NASA'S WORKFORCE JUNE 13, 2006 SPEAKERS: U.S. REPRESENTATIVE ... question that affects every aspect of the workforce that NASA has: Does NASA have the right strategy and policies to retain and build ...
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Resurrecting the right stuff. (National Aeronautics and Space Administration's procurement methods; includes related article) (NASA, part 2)
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Grounded: how NASA went from boldness and a can-do spirit to ineptitude and irrelevance. An autopsy of the American space program. (includes related article) (part 1) (Cover Story)
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