With the death of company founder and first CEO Willard Rockwell in 1978, and the stepping down of his son Willard Rockwell, Jr. in 1979 as the second CEO, Bob Anderson became CEO and led the company through the 1980s when it became the largest U. S. defense contractor and largest NASA contractor.

NASA discouraged any discussion of additional visits due to the station's age, but in 1977 and 1978, when the agency still believed the Space Shuttle would be ready by 1979, it completed two studies on reusing the station.

* 1981 — NASA retrieves data from 1978 that shows a comet crashing into the Sun

In 1978, McNair was selected as one of thirty-five applicants from a pool of ten thousand for the NASA astronaut program.

The last passenger flight for the Tu-144 was in June 1978 and it was last flown in 1999 by NASA.

In the meantime, in 1978, NASA launched the first imaging X-ray telescope, Einstein ( HEAO-2 ), into orbit.

Resnik was recruited into the astronaut program January 1978 by actress Nichelle Nichols, who was working as a recruiter for NASA.

* Kent Rominger, 1978, Former NASA astronaut and shuttle commander

* NASA report JSC-03600 Apollo / Skylab ASTP and Shuttle Orbiter Major End Items, Final Report, March 1978 ; NASA report listing dispositions of all rockets and spacecraft used in the Apollo, Skylab, Apollo-Soyez Test Project and early shuttle missions, as of 1978.

Selected as an astronaut candidate in 1978, Coats became a NASA Astronaut in August 1979.

Prior to his selection by NASA in 1978, Hawley was a post-doctoral research associate at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in La Serena, Chile.

Selected by NASA in January 1978, Mullane became an astronaut in August 1979.

NASA selected Hauck as an astronaut candidate in January 1978.

Lucid was selected for the NASA Astronaut Corps in 1978.

From August 1975 to 1978, Allen served as NASA Assistant Administrator for Legislative Affairs in Washington, D. C.

* NASA Exceptional Service Medal ( 1978 )

Gardner was selected as an Astronaut Candidate by NASA in January 1978, reporting to the Johnson Space Center in July 1978.

Selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in January 1978, McBride became an astronaut in August 1979.

Selected by NASA in January 1978, Williams became an astronaut in August 1979, qualified for assignment as a pilot on future Space Shuttle flight crews.

Guest made his first appearance as Tufnel on the 1978 sketch comedy program The TV Show.

* 1978 – The pivotal Third Plenum of the 11th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is held in Beijing, with Deng Xiaoping reversing Mao-era policies to pursue a program for Chinese economic reform.

In 1978, the end of the program saw a return to the inner solar system, with the Pioneer Venus Orbiter and Multiprobe, this time using orbital insertion rather than flyby missions.

Kurzweil's next major business venture began in 1978, when Kurzweil Computer Products began selling a commercial version of the optical character recognition computer program.

Following the conclusion of the ALT test flight program, on March 13, 1978, Enterprise was flown once again, but this time half way across the country to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center ( MSFC ) in Alabama for the Mated Vertical Ground Vibration Testing ( MGVT ).

Following the MGVT program and with the decision to not use Enterprise for orbital missions, it was ferried on 10 April, 1978 to KSC.

The Steelman language requirements were a set of requirements which a high-level general-purpose programming language should meet, created by the United States Department of Defense in The Department of Defense Common High Order Language program in 1978.

He founded MicroPro International Corporation in September 1978 and hired John Robbins Barnaby as programmer, who wrote a word processor, WordMaster, and a sorting program, SuperSort, both in Intel 8080 assembly language.

The program has rarely been pre-empted since 1978.

In 1978 Kurzweil Computer Products began selling a commercial version of the optical character recognition computer program.

Since 1978, a systematic excavation has led Loud in the setting of a regional research program on the evolution of the churches during the Middle Ages.

Previously, he had held strong conservative or libertarian political views, desired a career in business, was a highly active member of Teenage Republicans, serving as the Youth Governor for Pennsylvania through the YMCA Youth and Government program in 1978 and almost pursued a Republican political career.

FERC also administered a program to foster new cogeneration and small power production under the Public Utilities Regulatory Policy Act of 1978.

In 1978, Bull patented the SPOM ( self-programmable one-chip microcomputer ) that defines the necessary architecture to program the chip.

A program to re-establish a nesting beach for Kemp's Ridley sea turtles on Padre Island was begun in 1978.

The National Institute on Drug Abuse ( NIDA ) contracts to the university the production of cannabis for the use in approved research studies on the plant as well as for distribution to the seven surviving medical cannabis patients grandfathered into the Compassionate Investigational New Drug program ( established in 1978 and canceled in 1991 ).

Some scholars have even considered that the FN's 1978 program may be regarded as " Reaganite before Reagan ".

An alternative program which provided 1, 400 hours of training at the community college level prior to commencing employment was then tried, and made mandatory in 1977, with formal certification examinations being introduced in 1978.

In 1978, Gibb performed on the Sesame Street Fever album for the Sesame Street children's TV program.

No vocals were recorded with Walker, but the new line-up appeared on the BBC Midlands TV program " Look Hear " on 6 January 1978, performing their hit " War Pigs " plus an early version of what would eventually become " Junior's Eyes ".

Another key difference between the 1978 and 1982 state constitutions is the latter's approach to outside help for the modernization program.

In 1978, Kravitz was accepted into the school's well-respected music program.

He went to the United States as an exchange student in 1978 through a Rotary International program.