Obama's redirection of the agency caused consternation among former astronauts like Neil Armstrong and John Glenn, and even among the President's supporters: Most people think of nasa's job as one of landing on the moon and Mars and exploring other faraway destinations.
Magpies chairman John Armstrong-Holmes has said the takeover could be completed "in a few weeks".
Speaking to the BBC, managing director of CEF John Armstrong described this "unique" feature of the construction sector.
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John Armstrong, who is originally from Newtownards in County Down, is now a mountain rescue trainer in Scotland.
John Armstrong of the Construction Employers Federation said he believed Stormont ministers should invest further money in "capital infrastructure projects" to help the construction sector.
Best on why any of this matters: In Search Of Civilization by Kenneth Clark and In Search Of Civilization by John Armstrong, discussed here.
Take the blistering portrait of life in a big British retail bank (NatWest, now part of the Royal Bank of Scotland, pseudonymously appearing as British Armstrong) by John Weeks, an American professor of organisational behaviour.
Sir Leonard had travelled north with the permission of the NIO to meet the cardinal and his Church of Ireland counterpart, Archbishop John Armstrong, in the wake of the bitter hunger strike of the previous year.
That's what former cyclist John Eustice expects when Armstrong speaks.
Before being chosen in 1962 as one of the "Group II" astronauts -- which included Apollo 13 commander James Lovell along with such legends as Frank Borman, Pete Conrad and John Young -- Armstrong was one of the elite pilots selected to fly the X-15 rocket plane up to five times the speed of sound and toward the edge of space.
Armstrong, along with American Jack Hensley and British citizen Kenneth John Bigley, were kidnapped from their residence Thursday.
The match seemed to be slipping away from John Joe Doherty's side as Kieran Fitzgerald and Sean Armstrong struck superb points to put Galway 0-11 to 0-9 ahead with 20 minutes left.
Three sites have been shortlisted for the new academy - the existing Westgate college site, land south of Armstrong Road in Benwell, and the third site was land next to the John Marley Centre.
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Rather than having the jaunty wit of a Wally Schirra, the affable magnetism of a John Glenn or the flinty swagger of a Chuck Yeager, Neil Armstrong came across as nothing more than the earnest, no-nonsense engineer he actually was.
It has also bought the rights to games by the National Basketball Association, the National Hockey League, the NCAA men's basketball tournament and English Premiere League soccer, and such personalities as sportscaster John Madden , skateboarders Bam Margera and Tony Hawk , cyclist Lance Armstrong and political commentators Bob Dornan and Michael Reagan .
The two other proposed sites are land next to the John Marley Centre, Norland Road, Scotswood, and land south of Armstrong Road, near the junction with Whitehouse Road, Scotswood.
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In 1954, 24 boxers became the first inductees into the Boxing Hall of Fame, including Henry Armstrong, Gentleman Jim Corbett, Jack Dempsey, Jack Johnson, Joe Louis and John L. Sullivan.
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