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From: mac@idacrd.UUCP (Robert McGwier)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Skeptical Shuttle Enquirer
Message-ID: <910@idacrd.UUCP>
Date: 8 Apr 91 16:11:07 GMT
Organization: idacrd, princeton, nj
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If you were a truly cynical person, and you were extremely worried about the
manned space budgets during these times, and if you needed a GOLDEN opportunity
to demonstrate why man needs to be launching satellites (HEY!  James Pike
says so, it must be true now), and you knew you could rig the release clamp
so that it released but the spring mechanism could be fouled and that it
would be trivial for a spacewalker to fix it and OH BY THE WAY we just planned
many hours of space walks . . . .   I hate to be such a cynic and a skeptic
but it is just too much like a choreographed melodrama for me.

Bob

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