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From: leem@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Lee Mellinger)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Kuiper Airborne Observatory
Message-ID: <5408@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 19 Jul 89 20:02:15 GMT
References: <14471@bfmny0.UUCP> <150@cfa.HARVARD.EDU>
Reply-To: leem@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Lee Mellinger)
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In article <150@cfa.HARVARD.EDU> willner@cfa.HARVARD.EDU (Steve Willner) writes:
:> Now take the Kuiper observatory.  Why is NASA in charge?  Ya got me,
:> buddy.  (I know NSF and others help adminstrate.)
:
: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.)
:
:Steve Willner            Phone 617-495-7123         Bitnet:   willner@cfa

BMDT = Bundes Ministerium fuer Forshung und Technologie = Federal
Ministry for Research and Technology. (spelling is probably not quite
right)

Lee

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