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- Subject: All NASA Science In-House?
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- Date: 17 Nov 92 16:06:04 GMT
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- I skimmed over the news about NASA's reorganization, thinking it was mainly
- some kind of bureaucratic busywork, but now I'm hearing that NASA plans to do
- all science in-house. If this is true, it would mean that space science
- departments in universities would no longer get funding from NASA, and I guess
- it would also mean that an organization like JPL would no longer receive such
- funding either.
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- If this is true, and if the NSF also shirks its responsibility to fund basic
- research [i.e., if Walter Massey has his way], then US space scientists of all
- stripes will have to rely increasingly on US military funding [at least THEY
- still understand the value of basic research] and certain other nations which
- are amenable to international cooperation in this area.
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- Does anyone out there still have a copy of the NASA reorganization story,
- and/or could they tell me what they think this means to the space science
- community?
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- _____________
- Dale M. Greer, whose opinions are not to be confused with those of the
- Center for Space Sciences, U.T. at Dallas, UTSPAN::UTADNX::UTDSSA::GREER
- "Pave Paradise, put up a parking lot." -- Joni Mitchell
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