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From: earle@oblio.DEC (Mr. SPPR)
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Subject: Re: RE: Mars Expeditiion
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Date: Mon, 16-Dec-85 09:02:02 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 16 09:02:02 1985
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> Unfortunately, the analogy to Apollo may be all too apt.  What happens
> after the First Mars Expedition returns?  How long before the budget
> starts getting cut back, back, back, on the grounds that "you've finished
> your job"?  Take a tour of KSC, and be sure you look at the Saturn V lying
> on its side rusting:  that was FLIGHT-READY HARDWARE, scheduled to launch
> Apollo 18 or 19.  Or visit the Air & Space Museum in Washington:  that's a
> real Skylab, intended to fly as a followon to the original; that's a real
> Lunar Module, meant for Apollo 18 I believe; that's a real Viking lander
> and orbiter, which many people wanted to fly as Viking 3.  The people who
> are pushing for a Mars mission are setting us up for the same thing, on
> a much more massive scale.
     
 Yes, but think of all the great MUSEUMS we'll have!!
     
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        \_/                                     George Earle
                                                DECVAX!DECWRL!RHEA!OBLIO!EARLE
                                                Digital Equip. Co.

Disclaim?! Well, why not.