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From: stolfi@jumbo.dec.com (Jorge Stolfi)
Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: space news from Feb 6 AW&ST
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Date: 4 Apr 89 06:45:50 GMT
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Reply-To: stolfi@src.dec.com (Jorge Stolfi)
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Henry Spencer writes:
>   
>   [Congress, of course, is also the bunch that is constantly
>   harping on how expensive the space station is getting.
>   Parochial pork-barrel projects like this are a significant
>   reason.] 

Congress, of course, is also the bunch that was told that the Space
Station was going to cost $8 billion, approved it, and soon afterwards
was told that the real cost was more like $30 billion.  

                Jorge Stolfi

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