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International Space Station Program Soothes Its Toughest Critics.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, December, 2002
By Gwyneth K. Shaw, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Dec. 12--WASHINGTON--The task force that last year delivered a blistering assessment of NASA's international space station program now has much greater confidence in the project, the panel's chairman said Wednesday.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has made changes to the program's budget, management structure and team, and taken steps to determine which on-board experiments hold the most scientific promise. The combination impressed the task force, said Thomas Young, a former president of Martin Marietta who led the group.
"The right things have been done to make it a credible program," Young told the NASA Advisory Council.
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