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From: heksterb@Apple.COM (Ben Hekster)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Is `Astro' European?
Message-ID: <47367@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 14 Dec 90 02:51:39 GMT
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Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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Craig L. Cole writes...
>>
>>that the media will call it a NASA setback, because Astro was European.
>>                                                              ^^^^^^^^
>
>*> ouch <*  (
>
>I did it again. Astro is American. Because of this enlightnment, I'd like
>to change my opinion:
>
> [...]

I was under the impression (at least that's what my paper said) that the failed
computers were in fact supplied by ESA.
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