Letter from Stephen Hoar regarding the space station: "If NASA had been around to help the Wright Brothers, we would not have flown until the 747 was perfected."
Chinese researchers claim considerable success in predicting earthquakes in coastal regions from satellite ocean-temperature data: the sea gets 1-3C warmer a few days before a quake.
Endeavour cleared for 1 Dec launch after the move to pad B.
NASA's FY95 budget is going to be smaller than FY94's. How much, and who gets hurt, are the questions. AXAF and SIRTF believed in danger.
House clears a bill authorizing the president to share missile-defense technology with the ex-USSR nations.
"NASA is in chaos... can't develop a strategic plan... can't develop a vision..." That's Dan Goldin testifying to the Senate Science Committee about the effects of having NASA five-year funding projections change (for the worse) every few months. "When you can't plan, you can't perform."
Congress expected to fight Pentagon decision to kill FEWS in favor of a smaller cheaper system 4-5 years later, although Congress has not been too generous with FEWS funding. There are mixed signals everywhere on this issue.
Senators threaten to take action to force the White House to get going on remote-sensing policy. Administration officials won't even set a date, much less enunciate a policy.
[That's it for this one; light news week.]
Belief is no substitute | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology for arithmetic. | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry