NASA eyes easier space salvage after Discovery recovery
NASA officials hailed the Discovery mission as a success and urged design tweaks for future satellites including better external grappling devices and electronics boxes to aid spacewalk repairs. The Syncom 3 salvage tops a string of in-space fixes with Hughes planning a later orbit climb and ongoing evaluation.
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Edwards Air Force Base
Calif
Space Agency
Jesse Moore
NASA
Discovery
Moore
Los Angeles
Syncom 3
Hughes Communications Inc
Navy
Global
Earth
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
European Space Agency
ESA
James “Ox” van Hoften
Bill Fisher
Johnson Space Center
Houston
Hughes
Steven Dorfman
Jack Covey
Rogers Dry Lake
Joe Engle
Covey
Chuck Yeager
Engle
Yeager
Edwards
Fred Steerming
NEXUS Educational cable TV plan for Montgomery County
County council heard a report recommending NEXUS a cooperative to provide instructional broadcasts. The plan would involve public schools Montgomery College and the University of Maryland with an initial funding near 500000 dollars.
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NEXUS
Rockville
Montgomery County
University of Maryland, Montgomery College
Robert E. Parilla
Montgomery College
Wilmer S. Cody
John S. Toll
University of Maryland
David Scull
Scull
Toll
Educators warn Reagan tax plan harms public schools
Washington AP The proposed elimination of the federal deduction for state and local taxes would threaten public school funding. National Education Association President Mary Harwood Futrell and National School Boards Association official Nellie Weil urged Congress that scrapping the deduction would dampen educational reform and widen perceived tax burdens, risking state and local education revenue.
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Washington
Reagan
Congress
Mary Harwood Futrell
National Education Association
Joint Economic Committee
Nellie C. Weil
National School Boards Association
Titanic wreck found intact awaits memorial role
Titanic remains are remarkably preserved at 2 1/2 miles deep as Robert Ballard and the Argo remotely survey the site off Newfoundland. Ballard called the hull upright and in superb condition while stressing salvage would desecrate the graves of more than 1,500 victims. The Knorr team plans further hull surveys before Woods Hole, Paris, and Washington announce results.
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Boston
Robert Ballard
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
Ballard
ABC News
CBS Evening News
CBS
Shelley Lauzon
Woods Hole
Navy
Knorr
Newfoundland
Edward Kamuda
Titanic Historical Society
Indian Orchard
Lauzon
Paris
Washington
Police probe theft of tractor trailer in Maryland
Maryland State Police investigate the theft of a 1981 gray and burgundy Freightliner tractor and red 1981 Transcraft flat bed trailer from the Maryland Transportation lot on Grove Road near Evergreen Point. The rig with Virginia registration PY-15320 and Maryland trailer C-90670 disappeared between 4 p.m. Sunday and 10 a.m. Monday, with a theft total of 65,000 dollars. The probe also covers a vending machine theft at a Thurmont laundromat at about 2 a.m. Sunday.
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Maryland
Grove Road
Evergreen Point
Virginia
Tfe
Scott McCauley
Frederick County
Thurmont
Susan C. Nicol
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Texas
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Elworthy
Artie Iit
Richard Loose
Panacron
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