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NASP: hypervelocity hyperbole?

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Future project development of the National Aerospace Plane (NASP) remains uncertain as a result of various corporate and political problems. Discontinuation of the project is viewed as a signigificant drawback in the development of a single-stage-to-orbit airbreathing vehicle.

Author: David, Leonard
Publisher: National Space Society
Publication Name: Ad Astra
Subject: Astronomy
ISSN: 1041-102X
Year: 1993
United States, Science and technology policy, United States. Department of Defense. Single Stage To Orbit Launch Vehicle Program

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Out the airlock

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NASA Administrator Richard Truly was fired from his post on Feb 12, 1992 due to differences on how to restructure the agency. He was the first astronaut to serve as the space agency's chief and the first one to be fired.

Author: David, Leonard
Publisher: National Space Society
Publication Name: Ad Astra
Subject: Astronomy
ISSN: 1041-102X
Year: 1992
Human resource management, Appointments, resignations and dismissals, United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Research administrators, Truly, Richard

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Pounding the drums for the big bang

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Investigations into the origins of the universe took a new turn due to observations made by NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer satellite. These observations tend to support the inflationary universe theory.

Author: David, Leonard
Publisher: National Space Society
Publication Name: Ad Astra
Subject: Astronomy
ISSN: 1041-102X
Year: 1992
Observations, Big bang theory, Cosmology, Astrophysics, Cosmic Background Explorer (Artificial satellite)

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