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"Has America forgotten its aspiration to become a space-faring nation?" writes Richard Cook in an essay published January in The Orlando Sentinel. "Can those days be brought back by a country that has given away its manufacturing prowess to foreign competitors like China, and that has been devastated by two decades of economic turmoil?"
The decline of the U.S. space program is a subject that Cook, 64, understands inside and out. A Roanoke resident since 2007, he once worked as a budget analyst for NASA.See the full content of this document
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Space Expert to Present Opinions
Before the disastrous launch of the Challenger in 1986 that killed six astronauts and a schoolteacher, Cook warned the agency about problems with the seals in the shuttle's rocket boosters. After the explosion, he became a whistle-b...
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