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... inter-national communications system "on the basis of equality." ''(Reuters, Wash. Post, 9/11/64)'' Rep. Joseph E. Karth ''(D.-Minn.)'', speaking at Midwest Governors' Conference in Minneapolis, recommended establishment of a national technology commission to award Federal research projects to promote nationwide economic development. Rep. Karth said concentration of Government R&D contracts to industries and universities on East and ...

... for administrative operations. NASA had requested $5.012 billion. During debate preceding bill’s passage, Rep. James G. Fulton (R-Pa.) offered amendments, subsequently rejected, to eliminate $41.9-million funding ... the concept of developing a well-rounded total space capability directed toward achieving space preeminence. . . .” Rep. John Wydler (R.N.Y.), proposing an amendment to earmark $20 million of the total ...

... international relations in the political, economic, cultural, and scientific spheres." ''(PD, 12/18/72, 1759)'' Rep. Olin E. Teague (D-Tex.), Chairman of House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, would become Chairman ... )'' Science article commented on renaming of Jet Propulsion Laboratory in honor of retiring California Congressman: Rep. H. Allen Smith's closest association with aerospace had come in late 1940s when he ...

... , 5/21/72, 21)'' White House announced plans for new series of awards, Presidential Prizes for Innovation. Prizes, to be distributed Sept. 15, would consist of medal and $50 000. Money would ... Office of Science and Technology, headed by National Bureau of Standards physicist Carl M. Muelhause. Prizes would honor technological advances dealing with "significant problem" in domestic area. ''(Sci & Gov Rpt, 6 ...

... )'' Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences announced award of 1972 Nobel Prizes in chemistry and physics to six U.S. citizens. Chemistry prize of more than $100 000 would be shared by National ... . These properties we generally associate with the concept of life and with living organisms." Physics prize was awarded for theory of superconductivity developed jointly by Dr. John Bardeen of Univ. of ...

... technology." (Aerospace, Spring 78, 3) In 1909 the Aero Club of Great Britain had established prizes of $125 each for the first four 250-yd flights of a heavier-than-air ... the progress of aviation. The Royal Aeronautical Society had just announced the $200 000 Kremer prize for the first crossing of the English Channel west to east by a manpowered aircraft. The society also had offered a $20 000 prize to the first Britisher who could duplicate in a manpowered aircraft the course flown by ...

... of Biological and Physical Research (OBPR) in Washington, DC. The three scientists received the Nobel Prize for their work in discovering a new state of matter called Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC ... that further advanced understanding of the phenomenon. ''(Nobel Foundation, “The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001,” http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2001/press.html (accessed 23 November 2008).'' September 2001 September ...

... , Program Manager of NASA’s Centennial Challenges Program, stated that NASA would add the unawarded prize money to the winnings for the 2008 Regolith Excavation Challenge, increasing the value of the ... NASA engineers would observe the competition in the future. ''Dana Mackenzie, “No One Scoops the Prize at Moon Digger Contest,” New Scientist, 14 May 2007.'' April 2007 April May 2007 May ...

... advance the personal spaceflight industry. NASA’s Innovative Partnership Program sponsored the US$10,000 prize for the Conrad Award. The Spirit of Innovation exhibition would travel nationwide to highlight the students’ achievements. The X Prize Foundation announced that, in addition, a scroll inscribed with the winners’ names would travel to ...

... ., to manage the Sample Return Robot Challenge, one of the agency's new Centennial Challenges prize competitions. The challenge will demonstrate how a robot can locate and retrieve geologic samples from ... , student groups and independent inventors working outside the traditional aerospace industry. Unlike contracts or grants, prizes are awarded only after solutions are successfully demonstrated. There have been 20 Centennial Challenges competition ...

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