Newsgroups: sci.space
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: NASA selects atmospheric sounder for EOS space platform  (Forwarded)
Message-ID: <1989Feb9.012932.914@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <21001@ames.arc.nasa.gov> <10522@well.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 89 01:29:32 GMT

In article <10522@well.UUCP> tneff@well.UUCP (Tom Neff) writes:
>How can something like EOS - in polar orbit - be "part of" the Space
>Station? ...

As both the NRC and me -- two illustrious authorities :-) -- have pointed
out, nothing in polar orbit has any rational connection with the space
station whatsoever.
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