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From: p515dfi@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Daniel Fischer)
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Subject: Re: Galileo Update - 11/02/90
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Date: 12 Nov 90 11:43:25 GMT
References: <1990Nov2.225442.8608@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> <4680@cvl.umd.edu>
Organization: Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie, Bonn, W-Germany
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<1990Nov6.162730.6424@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Nov7.163527.1466@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
Reply-To: p515dfi@mpirbn.UUCP (Daniel Fischer)
Organization: Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie, Bonn

In article <1990Nov7.163527.1466@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> 
baalke@mars.UUCP (Ron Baalke) writes:
>In article <1990Nov6.162730.6424@zoo.toronto.edu> 
henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>> [...]  Ulysses is a European project with minor NASA participation.
>Here is NASA's contributions to the Ulysses mission:   [ list deleted ]
>NASA's participation with Ulysses is much more than minor.

And even more notable: this contribution is exactly what the ESA/NASA 
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in 1979 had called for. Although these
MoUs do not have the legal status of a contract, at least this one has survived
all the earthquakes of the project! I wonder whether the MoU regarding the
Space Station will have the same fate in the end...