Xref: utzoo sci.space:10016 sci.space.shuttle:2525 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncrlnk!ncrcae!hubcap!gatech!rutgers!apple!vsi1!v7fs1!mvp From: mvp@v7fs1.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt) Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: LANDSAT TO BE SHUT OFF SOON--PLEASE WRITE YOUR CONGRESSMAN Message-ID: <267@v7fs1.UUCP> Date: 12 Mar 89 00:52:45 GMT References: <15560@cup.portal.com> <1376@atari.UUCP> <1989Mar11.122307.18100@cs.rochester.edu> Reply-To: mvp@v7fs1.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt) Organization: Video7, Cupertino, CA Lines: 22 In article <1989Mar11.122307.18100@cs.rochester.edu> dietz@cs.rochester.edu (Paul Dietz) writes: >In article <1376@atari.UUCP> apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) writes: >>Dan Quayle, of all people, seems to have found some money to keep >>Landsat going. >He got it from various government agencies that use Landsat data. So >some customers are willing to pay for its operation. I just heard about that, and was going to post but y'all beat me to it. I'll have to look up that newspaper item. The way I heard it, Quale dug up about $5M to keep Landsat going for another couple of months. Congressman George Brown (D-CA) has written a letter to Bush urging that Landsat be kept going. The letter was co-signed by a bunch of congressmen; it might not be a bad idea to (1) find out if your congresscritter co-signed it, and (2) give him an "attaboy" if he did. (Why "of all people"? You don't believe everything the newsdroids on TV tell you, do you?) -- Mike Van Pelt "Hey, hey, ho ho, Video 7 Western culture's got to go." ...ames!vsi1!v7fs1!mvp Stanford students and faculty.