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The Chastening of NASA
Dreher, Carl | September 25, 1967 issue

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This article focuses on the problems faced by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The NASA, established about a year after Sputnik I by the Space Act of 1958, grew rapidly into a great federal empire, with 42,000 employees of its own and more than 400,000 people across the country working on the moon program alone. NASA's problems are technical and budgetary. Although ruthless cuts in the 1968 budget are unlikely, the debate in Congress had ominous overtones. The technical problems for manned deep space flight are formidable, the solutions will be expensive, the immediate returns are becoming less attractive in Congressional eyes.

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UNITED States. National Aeronautics & Space Administration; EMPLOYEES; SPACE flight; BUDGET; UNITED States. Congress; UNITED States
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