Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Fourth Shuttle?
Message-ID: <1989Dec13.044849.12140@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <6795@shlump.nac.dec.com> <1989Dec12.022557.6690@utzoo.uucp> <14990@bfmny0.UU.NET>
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 89 04:48:49 GMT

In article <14990@bfmny0.UU.NET> tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) writes:
>>1755 EST, Dec 14, 1972:  human 
>>exploration of space terminates
>
>After all, why send humans when Soviets will do?

Send them where?  On death-defying missions into the depths of space,
300km up?  The human *exploration* of space ended with Apollo 17.  Low
Earth orbit was quite well explored rather earlier.
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1755 EST, Dec 14, 1972:  human |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
exploration of space terminates| uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu