Newsgroups: sci.space
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: You Can't Expect a Space Station to be Cheap
Message-ID: <1990Nov7.174839.17400@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <0093F1AE.5AE929E0@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU> <9011021617.AA08225@iti.org> <0093F1DA.1F2A5920@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU> <1990Nov3.225832.20332@zoo.toronto.edu> <0093F2DB.F2D56F60@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU> <1990Nov4.062813.29481@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Nov6.234925.26062@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 90 17:48:39 GMT

In article <1990Nov6.234925.26062@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> baalke@mars.UUCP (Ron Baalke) writes:
>>???  They've never built a manned spacecraft at all, and as far as I recall
>>offhand they have zero experience in "large platform" work.  Their normal
>>line of work -- unmanned deep-space exploration -- is as far from space
>>stations as you can get and still be in space.
>
>JPL is involved with the Space Station program...

Quite true.  However, they still have zero experience with flying real
manned hardware, which is what this particular branch of the discussion
was about.
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