Aalice.342
net.columbia
utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!vax135!harpo!mhtsa!alice!sjb
Mon Jan  4 20:25:03 1982
Space commitment
Dr. George A. Keyworth, science advisor to President Reagan,
today expressed the administration's commitment to planetary
exploration and set out to disclaim some recent rumors.  One
of these was the reported idea of shutting off of the Voyager
deep space probes, before Voyager II reaches Uranus in 1986 and
then Neptune in 1989.  He said that this was not true at all,
and the Voyager program will go on.  He also expressed the
administration's desire for the Gamma Ray Observatory, which
will look into gamma ray emissions from space in much the
same way that the Einstein X-ray Observatory mapped X-ray
emissions.  He said, ``The Reagan administration is supporting
a strong initiative in planetary science, and this includes
a number of new projects that will develop using the capabilities
of the space shuttle.''  He did infer, however, that they may not
begin until near the end of the 1980's.

-----------------------------------------------------------------
 gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>
 of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/


This Usenet Oldnews Archive
article may be copied and distributed freely, provided:

1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles.

2. The following notice remains appended to each copy:

The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 
 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.