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From: petej@phred.UUCP (Peter Jarvis)
Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: space news from April 8 AW&ST
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Date: 3 Jun 91 13:00:27 GMT
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In article <1991May29.050238.23965@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>
>.... NASA currently has far too many studies
>and far too little hardware development.  It's time to pick the half-dozen
>most promising ideas and put some real development money into them, in full
>recognition that at least a couple will probably be blind alleys.  "To find
>oil, drill lots of wells."


And how do you propose to get NASA the money to "drill lots of wells"?
Congress can't even decide on how much to appropriate for a minimal Space
Station.........

Peter Jarvis........Physio-Control