Jul 29 1998
From The Space Library
Aaron A. Crayford and Cody Grosskopf, the two Cloverdale, California, teenagers accused of hacking into military and government computers in January and February 1998, pled guilty to federal hacking charges. The U.S. Attorney's Office recommended probation and strict restrictions on the boys' computer use and modem access. Crayford and Grosskopf had reportedly hacked into U.S government Web sites, including the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, the Naval Postgraduate School, NOAA, NASA, the U.S. Air Force, and Pearl Harbor naval base; Web sites of foreign governments, Taiwan and the United Arab Emirates; and Web sites of a number of universities, including the University of California at Berkeley, the University of California at Santa Barbara, the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of California at Davis, California Polytechnic Institute, Columbia University, and Harvard University.
The U.S. House of Representatives voted 323 to 109 against an amendment, sponsored by Representative Timothy J. Roemer (D-IN), which would have eliminated the ISS program before the launch of the first pieces of the laboratory into orbit. Commenting on the hundreds of thousands of pounds of hardware already constructed, Representative David Weldon Jr. (R-FL) remarked that "to pull the plug now seemed inappropriate to a lot of people." Despite bad news throughout the past year, requiring NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin to visit Capitol Hill repeatedly to discuss cost overruns and delays, the vote was the "strongest endorsement ever for the station." The station had survived by only one vote in 1993, the year President William J. Clinton had "reorganized the project and invited Russia to join the international consortium" and to build the laboratory.
NASA announced completion of qualification tests of the first wing assembly for its X-34 technology demonstrator, explaining that the prime contractor, Orbital Sciences Corporation, had integrated the wing assembly with the test article's fuselage, marking a major milestone in the program.
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