NASA Reports Required by Congress: Report Prepared by the Subcommittee on Space Science and Applications, Transmitted to the Committee on Science, Space, and TechnologyU.S. Government Printing Office, 1989 - Aeronautics |
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Page 12 - We can reach for greatness again. We can follow our dreams to distant stars, living and working in space for peaceful, economic and scientific gain. Tonight. I am directing NASA to develop a permanently manned space station and to do it within a decade.
Page 495 - Agreement Among the Government of the United States of America, Governments of Member States of the European Space Agency, the Government of Japan, and the Government of Canada on Cooperation in the Detailed Design, Development, Operation, and Utilization of the Permanently Manned Civil Space Station, Signed September 29, 1988, in Washington, DC (hereinafter US/International Space Station Agreement).
Page 676 - Packet: a group of binary digits, including data and call control signals, that is switched as a composite whole. The data, call control signals, and possibly error control information, are arranged in a specified format.
Page 488 - This MOU may be amended at any time by written agreement of the Parties.
Page 672 - Analog transmission. Transmission of a continuously variable signal as opposed to a discretely variable signal. Physical quantities such as temperature are continuously variable and so are described as "analog.
Page 645 - Handbook 8030.6. § 1205.101 Policy. (a) In conducting space science flight experiments, NASA shall seek to: (1) Preserve the integrity of each investigation. (2) Encourage the participation of the best qualified scientists. (3) Make the results of investigations generally available to the scientific community at the earliest practicable time.
Page 19 - We want our friends to help us meet these challenges and share in the benefits. NASA will invite other countries to participate so we can strengthen peace, build prosperity, and expand freedom for all who share our goals.
Page 612 - NASA ground network which includes the Deep Space Network (DSN) and the Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network (STDN).
Page 185 - Telescope (HST) and the Gamma-Ray Observatory (GRO) the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF) and the Space Infrared Telescope (SIRTF) are being planned to view critical wavelengths that are inaccessible to us: the X-ray region and the infrared.
Page 615 - binary digit," the smallest unit of information in a binary system. A bit represents the choice between a mark or space (one or zero) condition. Bit rate. The speed at which bits are transmitted, usually expressed in bits per second. (Compare with Baud.) Broadband. Communication channel having a bandwidth greater than a voicegrade channel, and therefore capable of higher-speed data transmission. (1). Broadband exchange (BEX). Public switched...