Mar 8 1994

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NASA announced that it and the Department of Defense had instituted policies to standardize requirements so as to improve the quality of contractor-delivered products to both agencies. (NASA Release 94-37)

George Brown, Democrat from California and chairman of the House of Representatives Science Committee, told the seven-member Space Shuttle crew that repaired the Hubble Space Telescope in September 1993, that their successful mission would help restore support for the space program. (Reuters, Mar 8/94; B Sun, Mar 9/94)

A Federal grand jury indicted Ram Bachan Ram, chairman of the mathematics department at Hampton University, on seven counts of mail fraud related to alleged plagiarism in submitting a proposal for a research grant to NASA. The proposal concerned "Implications of Pressure Diffusion for Shock Waves," and for it Ram received $100,810 from NASA's Langley Research Center. However, it developed that Ram had stolen the proposal and findings from the work of a professor at Clemson University in South Carolina. (Virginia Pilot, Mar 9/94)

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