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From: dmoore@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Douglas K. Moore)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: The government strikes again!
Message-ID: <1335@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 28 May 89 00:10:58 GMT
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Reply-To: dmoore@jarthur.UUCP (Douglas K. Moore)
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA
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I dont mean to disagree with Bill, but I would think that NASA would 
have either updated the control room a long time ago or built another one
after the Apollo program .... I knidof assumed they had but I forget
NASA is a branch of the government.  The IDEA of preserving the old/current
Apollo vintage room sounds like a good Idea to me, prehaps it is the 
Historian in me.  I would like to see a new room built for the shuttles
needs be construted, not a revamping of one made for another purpuse that 
has passed into antiquity. I would think that NASA would also support this 
as it would give them the opertunity to build an optimal facility for 
the current operation, while alowing the past to be preserved. 

Granted I am not as intimantly aquainted as some in this group with the 
control needs of the shuttle as they differ from the apollo program, nor am 
I at all confident that the necessary funding could be found in Mr.
Clements salary or elsewhere.  However, if the funding hurdles and space
limitations at JSC arnt problems I would support the construction of 
of a new facility.

Really no offence to your view intended Bill.

-- Douglas K. Moore '90
   Dept. of  Biology
   Harvey Mudd College

The views expressed in this, are not necessarily the views of the Students,
Facility, Trustees, or Staff of Harvey Mudd College; The other Claremont
Colleges or its Board of Govenors; The US Commission on Civil Rights; 
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