Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ubvax!ames!mike
From: mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Mike Smithwick)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: US, USSR shuttles a costly error...
Message-ID: <18541@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
Date: 22 Nov 88 16:46:02 GMT
References: <1360@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Reply-To: mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov.UUCP (Mike Smithwick)
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
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In article <1360@mcgill-vision.UUCP> cox@spock.ee.mcgill.ca (Henry Cox) writes:
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<[ From the Montreal Gazette, 22 November, 1988 ]
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<U.S., U.S.S.R. SHUTTLES A COSTLY ERROR: SOVIET
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<Sagdeev said the inaugural launch of the Soviet shuttle - like the
<1881 flight of the first U.S. shuttle - was an "outstanding 
 ^^^^
<technological achievement."

Boy, it must've been! It was a real boost to the post-civil war 
economy, and President Arthur hailed the event as "tremendously
significant to all 32 states".




-- 
			   *** mike (starship janitor) smithwick ***
"Scientists say 'Saturn is so light, if you put it in a bucket of 
water, it would float'. Don't forget, it would also leave a ring".
[disclaimer : nope, I don't work for NASA, I take full blame for my ideas]