http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0202/06congress/ Congressmen show support for O'Keefe, NASA budget BY JEFF FOUST SPACEFLIGHT NOW February 6, 2002 [snip] This year will be the final year Rohrabacher will serve as chairman of the space subcommittee because of term limit rules for committee chairs. Rohrabacher plans to use his final year in part to push through legislation he plans to introduce in the near future to establish an award named after the late astronaut Pete Conrad. The award would go each year to the astronomer who discovers the largest near-Earth object, an incentive for more people to look for objects that could pose a hazard to the Earth. "If we got 10,000 young people looking into the sky," he said, "even if they don't find anything it is still a good thing." [snip] Full story here: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0202/06congress/ ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
