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From: rivero@dev8a.mdcbbs.com
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Skeptical Shuttle Enquirer
Message-ID: <1991Apr10.132433.1@dev8a.mdcbbs.com>
Date: 10 Apr 91 13:24:33 GMT
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In article <910@idacrd.UUCP>, mac@idacrd.UUCP (Robert McGwier) writes:
> 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

Bob, you are a cynic. All shuttle missions carry the means for an EVA, whether
one is planned or not, for reasons which should be obvious.

Mike