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- <text id=92TT0014>
- <title>
- Jan. 06, 1992: Died:James Fletcher
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Jan. 06, 1992 Man of the Year:Ted Turner
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- MILESTONES, Page 64
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- <p> DIED. James Fletcher, 72, former head of the National
- Aeronautics and Space Administration who served two stints as
- head of the agency, from 1971 to '77 and from 1986 to '89; of
- lung cancer; in Washington. During his first term at NASA, he
- persuaded Congress to fund the space-shuttle program, saying it
- would pay for itself. Although it didn't, President Reagan
- brought Fletcher back to revive NASA in 1986 after the
- Challenger explosion revealed the agency's managerial disarray.
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- </body></article>
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