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From: Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Kuiper Airborne Observatory
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Date: 19 Jul 89 12:49:31 GMT
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In article <150@cfa.HARVARD.EDU>, willner@cfa.HARVARD.EDU (Steve Willner) wrote:
}Just a tiny correction.  The KAO is entirely operated by NASA - no NSF
}or other agency involvement whatever.  The next-generation airborne
}observatory (SOFIA - Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy)
}will be a joint project of NASA and the West German space agency.
}(BMFT, I think, though darned if I know what the initials stand for.)
  ^^^^
I'm pretty sure it's "Bundesministerium fuer Forschung und Technologie"
(Ministry of Research and Technology).

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