henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (05/01/85)
According to a recent item in Science, Reagan has finally named the members of the National Commission on Space, charged with defining the goals of the US space program. The news is good; here's the list (apparently one more member is awaiting security clearance): Thomas O. Paine, former NASA head Laurel L. Wilkening, planetary scientist at U of Arizona Charles E. Yeager, who should need no introduction Neil A. Armstrong, ditto Kathryn D. Sullivan, ditto Gerard K. O'Neill, ditto Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, outgoing US ambassador to UN Luis W. Alvarez, UCB physicist, Nobel prize Paul J. Coleman, UCLA geophysicist, Space Research Assn. president George B. Field, former Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophys. Observ. director, Nat. Acad. of Sci. Astronomy Survey Ctee. chairman William H. Fitch, retired deputy USMC chief of staff for aviation Charles M. Hertzfield, director of research and technology for ITT J.L. Kerrebrock, head of aero/astro dept. at MIT David C. Webb, space development consultant The article does note "...it remains to be seen whether anyone will pay attention when the commission finally does report...". This is tentatively scheduled to happen early in 1986. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry
jcp@brl-tgr.ARPA (Joe Pistritto <jcp>) (05/03/85)
In article <5558@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes: >According to a recent item in Science, Reagan has finally named the >members of the National Commission on Space, charged with defining >the goals of the US space program. The news is good; here's the list >(apparently one more member is awaiting security clearance): Now wait a minute... Personally, I can't understand why on earth a group defining the direction of the US space program should NEED a security clearance. After all, the military isn't going to let anyone outside DOD play with THEIR space operations, so surely the civilian side of the program should be completely unclassified. (Come to think of it, the very FIRST place the committee's report should be mailed is the Kremlin, that way they'll start moving on it 5-10 years ahead of Washington, which will scare everyone in Congress into funding the rest of the program... (1/2 :-)) -JCP-