Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site astrovax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!astrovax!ks From: ks@astrovax.UUCP (Karl Stapelfeldt) Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Re: Space Station is Inevitable Message-ID: <251@astrovax.UUCP> Date: Sun, 25-Mar-84 13:55:15 EST Article-I.D.: astrovax.251 Posted: Sun Mar 25 13:55:15 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 26-Mar-84 20:19:32 EST References: <715@seismo.UUCP> Organization: Princeton Univ. Astrophysics Lines: 5 I find it unbelievable (as you suggest) that Werner von Braun would compare the space shuttle's contribution to science to "an elephant in a lifeboat." How about citing some sources (and more detailed elaboration) for this alleged statement?