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From: rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Re: Side comment on the disaster
Message-ID: <976@burl.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 30-Jan-86 16:44:40 EST
Article-I.D.: burl.976
Posted: Thu Jan 30 16:44:40 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 1-Feb-86 01:15:49 EST
References: <1264@mtuxo.UUCP>
Reply-To: rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson)
Organization: AT&T Technologies, Burlington NC
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Summary: 

In article <1264@mtuxo.UUCP> jrrt@mtuxo.UUCP (r.mitchell) writes:
>of how other people see it.  I was talking to my officemate, an
>intelligent and highly-educated EE.  In her opinion, the shuttle
>disaster is evidence that people shouldn't be going out to space
>("Why can't they send robots?"), and perhaps the whole space program
>should be shut down, except for "routine" launchings of
>communications satellites.
>
Tell her that when she designs robots that can fix a satellite as beautifully
as the astronauts fixed the ailing one last year that maybe I'll listen to
her...
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