October 14, 1991

October 14, 1991

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HEADLINE NEWS

Global Space Recession Worries Officials; Managers Seek More Low-Cost Joint Projects

By CRAIG COVAULT5 min

HEADLINE NEWS

Soviets Eye Air-Launch ICBM To Put Civil Satellites in Orbit

HEADLINE NEWS

Pentagon, McDonnell Douglas Auditors Clash Over Firm’s Financial Condition

By PATRICIA A. GILMARTIN4 min

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Global Space Recession Worries Officials; Managers Seek More Low-Cost Joint Projects

MONTREAL International space programs are facing a global space recession caused by overly optimistic planning, soaring costs, delays and changing national priorities, according to program managers attending the 42nd International Astronautical Federation Congress.

By CRAIG COVAULT5 min

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Soviets Eye Air-Launch ICBM To Put Civil Satellites in Orbit

MONTREAL Soviet engineers are developing a new space launch system that would use a heavy jet transport to drop parachuteequipped intercontinental ballistic missiles that in turn would ignite in mid-air to propel satellite payloads into orbit.
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Pentagon, McDonnell Douglas Auditors Clash Over Firm’s Financial Condition

By PATRICIA A. GILMARTIN4 min

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Concepts Reflect Growing Interest in Using Low-Earth Orbit for Data and Voice Relay

By JEFFREY M. LENOROVITZ3 min

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NASA Shuffles Top Managers as Quayle Presses for Outsider as Truly’s Deputy

WASHINGTON As NASA Administrator Richard H. Truly shuffles top space agency managers, Vice President Dan Quayle is pressing for an outsider to step in as the agency’s No. 2 official. Quayle, who chairs the National Space Council, “wants to look at a lot of people out-of-house” before replacing Deputy Administrator James R. Thompson, Jr., according to a Bush Administration official.

By JAMES R. ASKER3 min

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C-17 Flight Testing Progresses Faster Than Planned; Air Force/Douglas Crews Praise Handling Qualities

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McDonnell Signs Credit Agreement With Banks

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Allied-Signal Posts $880 Million Writeoff, Slashes 8,000 Jobs in Restructuring

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De Havilland Plans to Slow Production of Dash 8 Aircraft

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DELTA GOES GLOBAL

D-Day Due for Delta Takeover Of Most Pan Am Operations

ATLANTA Delta Air Lines is preparing for perhaps the greatest one-time expansion of a carrier in the volatile history of commercial aviation. On Nov. 1, Delta is scheduled to take over the European and Silk Route network of Pan American World Airways, occupy two new international airport hubs and begin delivering traffic to Pan Am at Miami for Latin American destinations.

By JAMES OTT9 min

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