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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: space news from April 8 AW&ST
Message-ID: <1991Jun3.161844.8949@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1991 16:18:44 GMT
References: <1991May24.041512.7497@zoo.toronto.edu> <3405@phred.UUCP> <1991May29.050238.23965@zoo.toronto.edu> <3408@phred.UUCP>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <3408@phred.UUCP> petej@phred.UUCP (Peter Jarvis) 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...
>
>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.........

This may have more than a little to do with the fact that the Space Station
has spent roughly a decade and $5G+ on studies to date, with no hardware
to show for it...
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"We're thinking about upgrading from    | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
SunOS 4.1.1 to SunOS 3.5."              |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry