Sep 13 1990
From The Space Library
NASA Administrator Richard Truly told a panel created by President George Bush that the Agency was facing serious problems, but not what most people believed them to be. The two obstacles standing in front of the Agency, he said, were "Governmentwide practices" that encumbered connections between programs and resources and the public's misunderstanding of the pro-posed Space Station Freedom. The Space Station's design flaws, he added, were either solved or close to a solution, "yet public understanding is to the contrary." In a related matter, Federal Computer Week reported that NASA planned to spend $1.9 billion over the next five years on its seven centers of excellence in the area of high-performance computing. The Centers would focus on training college- and graduate-level students, thereby educating the next generation of scientists in the field. Truly, who spoke at a conference on supercomputing in September noted, "NASA needs high-performance computing. Some of our missions depend on it." (W Post, Sep 14/90; Fed Co Wk, Sep 10/90)
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