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From: greg@proxftl.UUCP (Gregory N. Hullender)
Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: space news from July 11 AW&ST
Message-ID: <691@proxftl.UUCP>
Date: 2 Sep 88 12:46:46 GMT
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Reply-To: greg@proxftl.UUCP (Gregory N. Hullender)
Organization: Proximity Technology, Ft. Lauderdale
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1) What exactly did these "successful" spaceleb missions discover?  I
   think they were just more "space junkets."

2) No one had to be up in space to see ocean currents; satellite pictures
   would have done as well.

3) What, exactly, is 3M launching on?  Can't be the shuttle right now,
   and it can't be too important if they've tabled it for almost 3 years.

4) My understanding of the Solar Max mission was that it cost a lot more
   than it would have to simply launch a new one.

5) Hubble has so far returned zero data.  There is nothing about a space
   telescope that intrinsically requires human servicing.

Even though some of the items you mention have some merit, the shuttle has
been at best irrelevant to them, at worst (and this is the usual case)
inimical.

I was being generous in giving it a zero.
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