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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: space news from Oct 6 AW&ST
Message-ID: <1990Dec9.234706.9029@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Date: Sun, 9 Dec 90 23:47:06 GMT

In article <20657@crg5.UUCP> szabo@crg5.UUCP (Nick Szabo) writes:
>... What goes around comes around, astronaut fans.  We are entering
>a new era where the funding proportions for "manned" stunts and real
>exploration and industry will be reversed, leading to a new Space Age...

Not if the Planetary Society has its way, since one of their big priorities
is the biggest and most short-sighted manned stunt in the history of space
travel:  the one-shot international manned Mars mission.
-- 
"The average pointer, statistically,    |Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
points somewhere in X." -Hugh Redelmeier| henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry