After Apollo 11 he worked for a while at Nasa’s Astronaut Office leaving
Posted in General on 05. Jul, 2010
After Apollo 11, he worked for a while at Nasa’s Astronaut Office, leaving in 1971 to become an engineering professor at Cincinnati UniversityIn 1979, he left teaching for the business world, serving in 1986 as vice-chairman of the presidential commission that investigated the Challenger disaster.Andrew Chaikin, a space journalist who has spent the past eight years studying the lives of the crews of the Apollo space missions, has had unique access to each of the 24 astronauts. President Clinton was coming, and five planeloads of senators and congressmen. When I resigned, I told Mr Fayed (Mohamed al-Fayed, the proprietor) that I felt many people were confused as to who to take orders from.’
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Their boycott of national testing last summer, which compelled John Patten, Secretary of State for Education, to set up the inquiry proved one of the most successful pieces of industrial action in recent years, although last night they were divided about whether to end the action.Sir Ron’s recommendations to restrict testing at the ages of 7, 11 and 14 to three rather than nine or ten subjects also accord with the views of Baroness Thatcher who, as Prime Minister, wanted only English, mathematics and science as compulsory subjects.