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From: earlw@pesnta.UUCP (Earl Wallace)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Re: optimism
Message-ID: <3010@pesnta.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Feb-86 00:45:50 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  5 00:45:50 1986
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NASA and it's contractors have done a great job with the  funds  available  to
them,  I  doubt  if  any  other group on this planet could do better.  Can you
imagine how difficult it must be to build a space-plane?  The shuttle is  here
and  now the job ahead is to learn from it, make improvements and refinements,
and start work on the new generation of shuttles.  This time however, congress
should  ask NASA what project they feel is the most important and that project
should be fully funded, no cuts of  any  kind.  The  remaining  NASA  projects
could  take  a  beating  in  the budget processing but at least the Nations #1
space program would not be limited in obtaining it's goal.  The  trouble  will
be defining the #1 goal.  

P.S. - Maybe we could delete just ONE layer of upper-level bureaucratic
       management in Federal, State and local Governments and use the
       money saved from that to build 200 shuttles :-) or maybe not...