An update of Utah State University's GAS activities

In Oct. 1976 NASA announced the GAS program, a concept which allowed the non specialist access to space. This was an event which may well have ushered a new era into space activities. We have all paid lip service to the concept of the avai1,ability of space to all people rather than just to the “professionals”. This program is one small step along that lengthy path. In the creation of the GAS program NASA has created a mechanism which is rare indeed for any bureaucracy. It has created a program which is designed to be responsive to the needs of those outside the system to institute change. In my interaction with the personnel of the GAS program I have met many individuals who have grasped the concept of change and encouraged it. In this paper I wish to present my version of the impact this program has had on Utah State University, the institution at which I am a professor.