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From: jtk@mordor.s1.gov (Jordan Kare)
Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: space news from Feb 22 AW&ST
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Date: 31 Mar 88 20:54:08 GMT
References: <1988Mar28.002506.12135@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: jtk@mordor.UUCP (Jordan Kare)
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In article <1988Mar28.002506.12135@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>
>[Micro-editorial:  In retrospect, it was clearly a mistake to give the USAF
>primary responsibility for US military spaceflight.  The US Navy, which has
>a long history of being charged with supporting commercial sea users, would
>have been a much better choice.]

Not to mention, as a Navy friend of mine points out, that the Navy has
vastly more experience with closed life-support systems and other
aspects of long-term survival in hostile environments -- other than
needing to get used to zero-g, any submarine crewperson would feel right
at home in a space station....

>Bad luck for the Soviets, a double dose this time.  Cosmos 1906, an imaging
>satellite working for the new Soyuzkarta marketing organization, fails and
>has to be blown up to prevent it making an uncontrolled reentry and possibly
>falling into US hands.  

Or onto US heads :-) (or is that :-( ?)

>"Noalias must go.  This is           |  Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
>non-negotiable."  --DMR              | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry

	Jordin Kare	jtk@mordor.UUCP	jtk@mordor.s1.gov