1982 NASA Authorization (program Review): Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Transportation, Aviation, and Communications of the Committee on Science and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, Second Session ....

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Page 3172 - Schedule pay rates. (2) The Commission may procure temporary and intermittent services to the same extent as is authorized by section 3109(b) of title 5 of the United States Code, but at rates for individuals not to exceed the daily equivalent of the annual rate of basis pay in effect for grade GS-18 of the General Schedule.
Page 2662 - GREY Dr. Jerry Grey received his Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering and his Master's in Engineering Physics from Cornell University; his PhD in Aeronautics and Mathematics from the California Institute of Technology. His early career included stints as a full-time Instructor of Thermodynamics at Cornell, an engine development engineer at Fairchild, a Senior Engineer at Marquardt, and a hypersonic aerodynamicist at the GALCIT 5-inch Hypersonic Wind Tunnel.
Page 3172 - Educational or vocational training services to be rendered by any university, college, or other educational institution in connection with the training and education of personnel, and for necessary material, services, and supplies furnished by any such institution in connection therewith. (2) Experimental, developmental, or research work, (including services, tests and reports necessary or incidental thereto) to be conducted by any university, college, or other educational institution; and reports...
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Page 3176 - For property or services that he [the Secretary] determines to be for experimental, developmental, or research work, or for making or furnishing property for experiment, test, development, or research.
Page 2662 - Hypersonic Wind Tunnel. He was a professor in Princeton University's Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Sciences for 15 years, where he taught courses in fluid mechanics, propulsion, and nuclear powerplants and served as Director of the Nuclear Propulsion Research Laboratory. He formed the Greyrad Corporation in 1959 and was its full-time President from 1967 to 1971.
Page 2662 - Grey is the author of seven books and over two hundred technical papers in the fields of solar energy, fluid dynamics, heat transfer, rocket and aircraft propulsion and power, plasma diagnostics, instrumentation, and the applications of technology. He has served as consultant to the US Congress (as Chairman of the Office of Technology Assessment's Solar Advisory Panel), the United Nations, NASA, the Department of Energy, and the US Air Force, as well as over twenty industrial organizations and laboratories.
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Page 2414 - NASA conducts these studies in support of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), the Department of State, and other organizations upon request.

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