Political Quotes

“the Administrator took notice of the concerns of those who objected to the Bion effort. He convened a high- level independent review program which completed its work on the Bion Task Force on July 1 with the unanimous recommendation to the NASA Advisory Council that NASA proceed with Bion 11 and 12 missions. He states in his letter of July 26: . . . the NASA Advisory Council unanimously approved the findings and recommendations of the Task Force and forwarded them to me. That is a letter of Daniel Goldin of July 26 of the NASA Advisory Council which is composed, among others, of professors at Stanford University, Cornell University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Florida A&M, DePaul University, California Institute of Technology, Harvard University, and a number of private sector organizations are involved. This NASA advisory council unanimously approved the recommendation of the Bion task force chaired by Ronald C. Merrell, Lampman professor and chairman, Department of Surgery of Yale University. That letter of July 2 to the advisory council says: We unanimously recommend that the Agency proceed with the Bion Project. In response to the three questions you asked us to address in reaching our recommendation we find the following: 1. The quality of the science proposed in the integrated protocol is excellent. It has been reviewed by peers in a very thorough and repeated manner and has withstood analysis for nearly a decade.…”