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From: edat!brian@uunet.UU.NET (brian douglass)
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Subject: Re: Pegasus
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Date: 25 Apr 91 22:52:02 GMT
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From: edat!brian@uunet.UU.NET (brian douglass)


prentice%triton.unm.edu@ariel.unm.edu (John Prentice) writes:
>If what I want to see is massing of troops
>on a border for example, then being able to put up a satellite in a
>few hours might be a real advantage over having to maneuver a big one.

And so probably why DARPA provided a good chunk of their funding
and bought the first 6 (?) launchs.  Of course NASA just wanted the
hypersonic flight data.  Scientists.  Hmmph!  (:-;

-- 
Brian Douglass			brian@edat.uucp