Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Peter flames Henry
Message-ID: <1989May9.013926.13621@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <11360@well.UUCP> <1989Apr23.000034.7797@utzoo.uucp> <2555@phred.UUCP> <1989Apr26.232428.3073@utzoo.uucp> <2562@phred.UUCP> <4359@ttidca.TTI.COM> <2570@phred.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 9 May 89 01:39:26 GMT

In article <2570@phred.UUCP> petej@phred.UUCP (Pete Jarvis) writes:
> ...How
>about Canada and the United States integrating in a team effort to send
>something to Mars? Share the cost? Or is that asking too much.

So long as Congress insists that the US must be able to go it alone on
everything just in case, it probably is.  Canada's contribution to the
space station is being essentially duplicated by NASA, on direct orders
from Congress, at your expense.  And one guess why the station will have
three different laboratory modules?  Right the first time:  one each from
JSA, ESA, and NASA, because the US wouldn't let ESA or JSA build anything
vital to the station.  Nobody in his right mind is going to expect the
US to participate in an "integrated team effort".  At least with ESA we
don't get this kind of nonsense (much).

Go Hermes!  :-) :-)
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