Path: utzoo!linus!husc6!hao!boulder!huntting
From: huntting@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Bradley Enoch Huntting)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Payload of shuttle flight directly after last Challenger.
Summary: Yes it's all true.
Keywords: Gak, you know. The next flight.
Message-ID: <1484@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Date: 3 Feb 88 23:44:52 GMT
References: <347@flatline.UUCP>
Reply-To: huntting@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Bradley Enoch Huntting)
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
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In his article <347@flatline.UUCP> erict@flatline.UUCP (eric townsend) writes:

>According to activist and musician Jello Biafra, the next flight of the
>shuttle was to carring a payload of 46 pounds of *plutonium*.
>He claims this is from _The_Nation_ and _Common_Cause_, who got
>it from NASA, who "conveniently forgot to tell us about it."
>
>1. Is this correct?
>
>2. If so, I thought there was a law or treaty or something...
>   [that] prohibits the launching of radioactive material...

I seem to remember hearing this on network TV the day the Columbia exploded.

As for Pu in space,  I've never understood how a satelite could use so much
power that it would need a fision reactor insted of photovoltaic cells, and a
battery?  Is there a weight problem?  Is it a political issue?

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	-brad e huntting			huntting@boulder.colorado.edu
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