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From: dietz@cs.rochester.edu (Paul Dietz)
Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: space news from July 17 AW&ST
Message-ID: <1989Aug21.111229.17764@cs.rochester.edu>
Date: 21 Aug 89 11:12:29 GMT
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Reply-To: dietz@cs.rochester.edu.UUCP (Paul Dietz)
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In article <1989Aug21.022319.22222@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:

>Apollo-11 editorial, more or less correctly predicting what Bush was going
>to say, and urging action rather than talk.  "Undertakings of this scale
>are never going to get any cheaper.  The time to start is now...
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Isn't this obviously false?  For example, wouldn't cheaper launch
vehicles reduce the cost considerably?  And does AW&ST view
chemical propulsion as the ultimate for interplanetary travel?

	Paul F. Dietz
	dietz@cs.rochester.edu