Newsgroups: sci.space
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Space Station Work Package #3
Message-ID: <1990Nov13.172815.966@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <90311.130321GWS102@psuvm.psu.edu> <9011072137.AA15699@iti.org> <2676@polari.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 90 17:28:15 GMT

In article <2676@polari.UUCP> crad@polari.UUCP (Charles Radley) writes:
>Freedom includes microgravity and life science capability, without
>the additional expense of these free-flyers...

And without their additional capabilities.

>The LLNL/Free-flyer
>system combination is  not useful for life sciences...

How so?  What does Fred have in intrinsic capabilities -- as opposed to
problems that can be fixed by just shipping up the right equipment --
that LLNL doesn't?  Note that LLNL has variable gravity, which Fred lacks
and which is of some substantial importance.

>Freedom also
>has some polar orbit free-flyers for Earth Observation activites,

Not any more it doesn't.  They have been split off as independent projects,
which is what they really were all along.  They had absolutely nothing to
do with the space station.
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