Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Notes on BURAN (the Shuttleskiy)
Message-ID: <1988Nov1.173738.4021@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <9395@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 88 17:37:38 GMT

In article <9395@watdragon.waterloo.edu> awtron@rose.waterloo.edu (Andrew Tron) writes:
>...  Some American space
>scientists were interviewed, who were disgusted at the fact that so
>much information about the Shuttle was unclassified and lying about
>in an unsecure place...

Perhaps they have forgotten (or never knew) that NASA is a civilian
agency whose charter specifically requires openness and distribution of
its technology.  "We came in peace for all mankind", remember?
-- 
The dream *IS* alive...         |    Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
but not at NASA.                |uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu