Hopes To Reconcile Agency's Current Needs With Future
Plans
Spurred by the hope that NASA can find a way to balance its
present needs in space with the agency's vision for the future, two
former Apollo astronauts and a former space shuttle astronaut
joined 22 other experts Tuesday in the first meeting of the newly
restructured NASA Advisory Council, a group of eminent US citizens
organized to provide guidance and policy advice to the
administrator of America's space agency.
In the face of possible UN sanctions and embargoes over its
refusal to shelve its nuclear program, Iran is now buying up all
the space hardware it can find... hoping to establish a foothold in
space before it loses access to the necessary technology.
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