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From: palmer@nntp-server.caltech.edu (David Palmer)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: another idea
Message-ID: <1990Oct24.051043.1832@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 24 Oct 90 05:10:43 GMT
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In article <488@newave.UUCP> john@newave.mn.org (John A. Weeks III) writes:
>In article <64096@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> jkonrath@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (jon) writes:
>> okay, since we're on such great terms with the Soviets, (ie berlin wall,
>> glasnot, etc ) and theyve got this great station that they keep up guys
>> forever, and we've got a great way to 'shuttle' up supplies, well....
>
>How about removing our really great space station from the Smithsonian

How about just buying Salyut 7, before it joins Skylab in Western Australia.

They have no use for it now, since they have Mir, but it's far better
than any American space station I expect to see this century.  Maybe
we could call it a 'construction shack' for the astronauts to use while
they are putting together Fred.

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