White House for space station despite dispute on NASA aims
MARK CARREAU Staff , SUN 03/01/1992 , HOUSTON CHRONICLE
The White House remains committed to NASA's planned Space Station Freedom although administrator Richard Truly was ousted in a policy dispute over the merits of complex, expensive and often trouble-prone programs.
"The president and the vice president continue to be strongly committed to the space station program," said an administration official, who spoke last week on condition of anonymity. "Admiral Truly's departure from NASA will not have any effect on that commitment."
Bush views the $30 billion cooperative space station venture with the European Space Agency, Canada and Japan as a vital first step toward the development of a lunar base and human expeditions to Mars by the year 2019, the official said.
As one of three major NASA facilities involved in the Freedom program, Houston's Johnson Space Center is serving as the "lead center" for initial development of the space station. About 4,000 people are employed locally in the effort.
In spite of its station endorsement, the National Space Council clashed with Truly over the wisdom of embarking on other expensive, long-term ventures before the White House announced Truly's resignation
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https://science.nasa.gov/mission/hubble/impacts-and-benefits/
NASA
A Revolutionary Telescope
Hubble became a household word by expanding our knowledge of the cosmos and for its spectacular images. But the telescope also impacted our technologies, industries, and culture.
Science Impacts
Seeing more, seeing farther, seeing deeper
Hubble's view from orbit unleashed a flood of cosmic discoveries that changed astronomy forever. From its explorations of dark matter to its quest to determine the age of the universe, Hubble has helped answer some of the most compelling astronomical questions of our time.
From 6/27/2005 ( in Seattle the Patty Murray - USA Senator - press conference at the Puget Sound Veterans Affairs Health Care System hospital at the same moment as Kerry Burgess I was discharged from same United States of America Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital ) To 10/26/2025 ( ) is 7426 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/3/1986 ( premiere USA TV series "Matlock" ) is 7426 days
The Seattle Times
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
Murray seeks $1 billion for VA
By Hal Bernton Seattle Times staff reporter
U.S. Sen. Patty Murray yesterday sent a letter to the White House asking President Bush to shore up a $1 billion shortfall in Department of Veterans Affairs health-care funding.
Murray, D-Wash., said the deficit could be addressed in an emergency-spending bill in the Senate in the days before the Fourth of July recess.
The shortfall for the current fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30, was disclosed by VA officials last week, prompting Murray to accuse the Bush administration of either "deliberate misdirection or gross incompetence."
Yesterday, Murray held a rally outside the Puget Sound VA Health Care System hospital in Seattle
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 12:56 PM Pacific-timezone USA Sunday 10/26/2025
