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https://www.nytimes.com/1982/11/14/weekinreview/nasa-wants-corporations-to-help-pay-the-freight.html
The New York Times
ARCHIVES 1982
NASA WANTS CORPORATIONS TO HELP PAY THE FREIGHT
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD NOV. 14, 1982
WHEN the Columbia's huge cargo-bay doors swung open Thursday, 184 miles out in space, the nation's space shuttle program was officially open for business. Four test flights over the last year and a half had proved that the winged spaceship could make repeated trips to and from orbit. On this fifth mission the shuttle hauled its first freight for paying customers, but it will take many more flights to prove whether the system is a sound economic venture.
''We're clearly in the loss-leader part of the program,'' conceded Lieut. Gen. James A. Abrahamson, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's associate administrator in charge of the shuttle project.
The hauling charge for a full cargo was set at $18.1 million in 1975 dollars, which comes to about $42 million in current dollars. A customer can reserve the entire 60-foot-long cargo bay or part of it, and pay accordingly. On the mission begun last week, Satellite Business Systems and Telesat Canada paid a total of $17 million to launch two satellites that took up less than half the cargo bay. (In addition to the fee, a customer must pay about $5 million for the solid-fuel rocket that boosts the satellite from the shuttle's orbit out to its own, higher orbital position.) The cost of the planned five-day flight, however, is expected to exceed $200 million. Further Cost Adjustments
Still, flying on the shuttle is currently less expensive than using expendable rockets. Robert C. Hall, president of Satellite Business Systems, said the shuttle should be ''cost-effective for our satellites even after the proposed rate increases in 1985.'' At that time, the rate for a full cargo will jump to about $93 million. Further adjustments will be made as NASA determines more precisely the real costs of operating the shuttle. No attempt will be made to recoup the more than $10 billion in development costs, which are considered an investment in a national resource.
General Abrahamson said that shuttle operations should start breaking even in 1986 or 1987, the result of the higher fees and a number of planned economies. The space agency, for example, is considering several schemes for turning over the ground processing of the shuttlecraft to a private contractor, which would have an incentive to reduce costs. Two teams of aerospace companies, one led by Rockwell International and the other by the Lockheed Corporation, are bidding to take over shuttle ground operations at Kennedy Space Center, probably starting in 1984.
One of their goals will be to reduce the ''turnaround'' time between flights from about 90 days, which NASA engineers are approaching, to about 48 days. Since overhead costs would remain approximately the same, the more often a shuttle flies, the more economical its operations. Turnaround time and total number of flights have been debated since the shuttle project's earliest days, when NASA was struggling for Presidential and Congressional support. At one point in the early 1970's, NASA proffered figures of 714 flights with a two-week turnaround. The agency now believes that 300 missions between now and 1992 is an optimistic number. Corporate Marketing
James M. Beggs, the NASA administrator, recently initiated a study that could lead to the creation of a new United States Space Transportation Company, a wholly-owned Government corporation, to handle shuttle marketing. With startup funding of as much as $1 billion, such a corporation would line up shuttle customers outside the Government and then pay NASA for the launching services. It would be authorized to offer customers special financing and to retain profits, neither of which NASA can do. In this way, the corporation should be able to compete with Arianespace, a privately owned European corporation that markets the services of the new Ariane expendable rockets.
With a more aggressive marketing operation, the nation may need to expand its shuttle fleet. NASA officials have sought money to start building a fifth orbiter, which might cost at least $1.5 billion. But so far the Office of Management and Budget has vetoed the project. Current budget office policy is that fleet expansion should be based on Defense Department launch requirements, rather than commercial demand. In a letter last June, O.M.B. director David Stockman told NASA administrator Beggs that although the shuttle was originally conceived to serve Government, commercial and foreign users, the Government does not have the responsibility to fund the system to meet all needs beyond the development stage. The user price should not be set so low that it draws demand for additional commercial capacity, he wrote. Nonetheless, NASA has asked the National Academy of Public Administration in Washington, D.C., to study ways to encourage industry participation. Members of the study group include Philip Klutznick, who was Secretary of Commerce under President Carter, and Peter Goldmark, executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
Except for commercial satellite companies, industry has so far been slow to take advantage of the shuttle's technical promise. NASA has touted the orbiter's potential as a materials processing laboratory and production site for pharmaceuticals, but with little response from related industries. As for the vehicle's ability to carry workers into space for satellite repair or construction, the shuttle's limited ability to move about once in orbit and the great cost of large structures in space make this selling point largely hypothetical. The Space Telescope is currently the only project that will require shuttle servicing.
Still, a private company, Space Transportation Company of Princeton, N.J., has offered to buy the fifth shuttle in return for an arrangement with NASA to be the shuttle marketing agent. And Citicorp is exploring the possibility of financing an orbiter and then leasing it back to the space agency.
All these measures are designed to free NASA to return to its primary mission as a research and development agency and to run the shuttle like a transportation business. Only then will the program begin to live up to its promise of revolutionizing space operations.
A version of this article appears in print on November 14, 1982
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STAR TREK
Sins of the Father
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Season: 3 Ep. 17
Air Date: 03/19/1990
http://www.simpsonsarchive.com/episodes/3F21.html
Homerpalooza [ The Simpsons television series episode ]
Original Airdate in U.S.: 19-May-96
Just as Bart and Lisa are starting to appreciate the show, Homer shows up, wearing this hat of his.
Bart: Dad, you cannot wear that! That's a rastafarian hat.
Homer: Pft. Hey, I've been safariing since before you were born.
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http://www.tv.com/shows/the-simpsons/homerpalooza-1437/
tv.com
The Simpsons Season 7 Episode 24
Homerpalooza
Aired Sunday 8:00 PM May 19, 1996 on FOX
AIRED: 5/19/96
http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1987/NATO-Exercise-Begins-In-Atlantic/id-e6c7a05075396466b8bf81dcfeb1fc5d
AP News Archive
NATO Exercise Begins In Atlantic
AP, Associated Press
Aug. 31, 1987 4:57 PM ET
NORFOLK, VA. NORFOLK, Va. (AP) _ NATO launched a major exercise Monday in the North Atlantic Ocean with fewer than half the number of U.S. warships that participated in a similar exercise two years ago.
A Navy spokesman said the cutback was not due to the buildup of American Navy forces in the Persian Gulf.
More than 150 ships and 250 aircraft from 11 nations are joining in ''Ocean Safari '87,'' which continues through Sept. 18, the office of Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic said in a statement.
Of those ships, 11 belong to the American Navy, including the aircraft carrier Forrestal and its eight escorts. When the exercise was last held in 1985 with a total of 160 ships, 28 U.S. vessels participated, including three aircraft carriers.
''These exercises are designed a year and a half to two years in advance. It was just designed for a smaller number of U.S. ships this time,'' said Petty Officer 1st Class Jim DeAngio, a SACLANT spokesman. ''More ships from the other nations are involved this time.''
DeAngio said the U.S. cutback had nothing to do with the buildup of naval forces in the Middle East.
The NATO nations hold the exercise to practice defending sea lanes in the Atlantic and general readiness for war.
Sending ships and aircraft to the exercise are Belgium, Canada, West Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Great Britain, France, Spain and the United States.
This is Spain's first involvement in a major exercise since joining the alliance in 1982. Spain and France are not part of NATO's armed forces, but do join training exercises with other alliance members.
The maneuvers will be conducted in the North Atlantic and in the Norwegian Sea.
http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1987/NATO-Exercise-Begins-In-Atlantic/id-7235f026d2890ede670545458acfde6c
AP News Archive
NATO Exercise Begins In Atlantic
AP, Associated Press
Sep. 1, 1987 1:44 AM ET
NORFOLK, VA. NORFOLK, Va. (AP) _ Major NATO maneuvers have fewer than half the number of U.S. warships than a similar exercise two years ago, but a spokesman says the American buildup in the Persian Gulf has nothing to do with the cutback.
More than 150 ships and 250 aircraft from 11 nations are joining in ''Ocean Safari '87,'' which continues in the North Atlantic through Sept. 18, the office of Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic said Monday.
Eleven ships belong to the U.S. Navy, including the aircraft carrier Forrestal.
http://www.simpsonsarchive.com/episodes/3F21.html
Homerpalooza [ The Simpsons television series episode ]
Original Airdate in U.S.: 19-May-96
Left alone, it's time for Homer to get in touch with the young people. He tries to blend in the crowd, but his Jamaican-rastafarian hat gets in the way.
Homer: Good concert, am I right?
Teen1: Yeah, nice try, narc.
Teen2: Where's a narc?
Teen3: Who?
Teen1: That fat Jamaican guy.
Homer: What did I say? What's going on?
Teen4: Hey, we're just trying to have a good time, narc. Why do you want to destroy us?
Teen5: Don't commit your hate crimes here. [yelling] HATE CRIME!
Pilot Move 1: The Six Million Dollar Man - DVD video
07 March 1973
00:30:37
Dr. Rudy Wells: Everything I told Steve Austin was designed to reassure him that in all respects, he'd be a normal man again. What I didn't tell him, because I didn't feel he was ready for it, was the extent to which he would be abnormal. I didn't tell him that if the operation was a success his physical powers would be absolutely awesome.
Pilot Movie 1: The Six Million Dollar Man - DVD video
07 March 1973
00:40:35
Dr. Rudy Wells: Hold it. Want some help?
Steve Austin: No. The thing is Doc, why? Why?
Dr. Rudy Wells: Why, what?
Steve Austin: Oh, come on. I may walk like a two year old, but I'm not that naive. Now you have all given me a gift, and I thank you very much. But now, what is the price tag?
Dr. Rudy Wells: We have given you something back that you've lost and that is all.
Steve Austin: How do you know what I've lost?
Dr. Rudy Wells: We've given you and eye for an eye, haven't we? An arm for an arm.
Steve Austin: My arm didn't come packed in a wooden box!
Dr. Rudy Wells: What do you want?
Steve Austin: I wanna know who's paying the freight!
Dr. Rudy Wells: What's the difference?
Steve Austin: The difference is when the bill comes due.
Dr. Rudy Wells: What are you so suspicious of?
Steve Austin: Look, I was a civilian member of the space program for 12 years! I know how much things cost. Now why am I worth a few million dollars? And what do I have to do for it?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033187/releaseinfo
IMDb
Tugboat Annie Sails Again (1940)
Release Info
USA 18 October 1940 (Tacoma, Washington) (premiere)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033187/fullcredits
IMDb
Tugboat Annie Sails Again (1940)
Full Cast & Crew
Jane Wyman ... Peggy Armstrong
Ronald Reagan ... Eddie Kent
http://www.chakoteya.net/NextGen/165.htm
Sins of the Father [ Star Trek: The Next Generation television series Season 3 episode 17 ]
Original Airdate: 19 Mar, 1990
WORF: Why did you judge my father guilty when you knew he was not?
K'MPEC: Someone had to be blamed. The warriors who captured the Romulan ship had learned of the treachery, but only the Council knew whose security code had been transmitted. Ja'rod, father of Duras.
WORF: This ha'DIbaH should have been fed to the dogs!
K'MPEC: His family is powerful. If the truth were known, it would shatter the Council, most certainly plunge us into civil war. You were in Starfleet. We did not expect you to challenge the judgment, nor did we know there was another son of Mogh.
PICARD: Worf's challenge is successful. The honour of his family must be restored.
K'MPEC: You do not understand. His challenge was defeated before he ever made it. You will not be allowed to present this evidence. The judgment stands. You will be condemned. So will your brother. There is no other way now.
PICARD: You admit the truth and yet expect him to accept punishment? What does this say of an Empire who holds honour so dear?
K'MPEC: The Empire will not be destroyed for one family's honour.
PICARD: Unacceptable, K'mpec.
DURAS: You have no say in this, cha'DIch!
PICARD: I speak now as the Captain of the USS Enterprise and Lieutenant Worf's commanding officer. You will not execute a member of my crew, nor will I turn his brother over to you.
K'MPEC: This is not the Federation, Picard. If you defy an order of the High Council, the alliance with the Federation could fall to dust.
PICARD: The alliance with the Federation is not based on lies, K'mpec! Protect your secrets if you must, but you will not sacrifice these men.
WORF: I will die for the Empire.
PICARD: Lieutenant.
WORF: The cha'DIch will be silent. Allow my brother to return to his life. Only you need know his true bloodline.
DURAS: Not acceptable. His honour would demand revenge.
WORF: If you allow him to live, I will give you something that will serve your purpose far more than my death. I will accept discommendation.
DURAS: You would do this in open council?
K'MPEC: It would be the same as admitting your father's guilt, Worf.
WORF: So be it.
K'MPEC: Your heart is Klingon. It will be done. What has been said here will never be spoken of again.
WORF: You are the son of a traitor.
(Worf slaps Duras' face)
WORF: Now I am ready.
PICARD: Do not forget what he does here today. Do not let your children forget.
WORF: tlhIH ghIj jIHyoj.
K'MPEC: biHnuch.
(one by one, the Klingons cross their arms and turn their backs on Worf)
WORF: You must also, brother.
(Kurn turns his back, and Worf and Picard walk out of the hall)
[ end of the television series episode ]
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