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From: calderaa@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Alan J. Caldera)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: The government strikes again!
Summary: Well this doesn't surprise me.
Message-ID: <4120@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>
Date: 23 May 89 21:50:20 GMT
References: <3310@kalliope.rice.edu>
Organization: Indiana University BACS, Bloomington
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In article <3310@kalliope.rice.edu>, phil@rice.edu (William LeFebvre) writes:
> Texas's dearly beloved (ahem) governor, Bill Clements, has just made life
> a little bit more difficult for our friends at NASA/JSC.  Apparently he
> has sent a letter to the President of the US requesting that the main
> mission control room be declared "unchangeable" so that it may be
> preserved as a national historical monument of the lunar landing (or some
> such nonsense).
> 
> [Other text explaining this assinine proposal deleted]

 This is about the most assinine thing that I have heard Bill Clemets
suggest. I say that they should remove the old equipment and set up a
new control room containing it somewhere around NASA Rd. 1
 Dont get me wrong, but I think its about time to modernize NASA's control
systems. It probably costs the taxpayers more money to maintain that old
equipment than it would to replace it all with updated technology.
As far as who should foot the bill for this monument, send the bill to
Bill (and George if he approves it).

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