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From: petej@phred.UUCP (Pete Jarvis)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Where is Challenger?
Message-ID: <2562@phred.UUCP>
Date: 1 May 89 14:09:55 GMT
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Reply-To: petej@phred.UUCP (Pete Jarvis)
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In article <1989Apr26.232428.3073@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
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>You forgot Mariners 6, 7, and 9, the last of which was particularly important.
>Ancient history, all of them.
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>All launched in the 1970s except Galileo, which isn't flying (much less at

Ancient history? The pictures the Mariners took 25 years ago are just as
valuable now as then. Has Mars changed much in the last 25 years, or in
the case of the highly successful Viking probes, 13 years? I doubt it.
What kind of probe do *you* think we should have sent to Mars in the 1980's?
And what would it have gained us? We have already mapped  a good portion of
the Mars surface in preparation for future landings. We have analyzed some
of its soil and atmosphere. We concentrated on the Shuttle program in the
1980's. I suspect we will be going back to Mars again in one form or the
other in the 1990's. It's pretty obvious the USA has a remarkable success
story going on the exploration of the solar system including a Neptune
fly-by this August! As far as I'm concerned, the glass is 3/4 full, *not*
1/2 empty!

Peter Jarvis...........