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From: steve@groucho.ucar.edu (Steve Emmerson)
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Subject: Re: Are We Exploring Space? (was Re: Fourth Shuttle?)
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Date: 14 Dec 89 17:25:37 GMT
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leech@cezanne.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech) writes:

[Talking about the advantages of manned space exploration]

>Then
>there are all those remote sensing experiments conducted from Skylab,
>Shuttle, and Mir.  Sending up the oceanographer (oops, forgot his
>name, Jean something) is one of the better examples.

As a former physical-oceanographer and member of the Satellite 
Remote-Sensing Group at the University of Miami, I can tell you that
he learned nothing we didn't already know -- from remote-sensing.

--Steve Emmerson	steve@unidata.ucar.edu