Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!syma!nickw From: nickw@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Nick Watkins) Newsgroups: sci.space Subject: Re: space science Message-ID: <1931@syma.sussex.ac.uk> Date: 20 Dec 89 16:33:30 GMT References: <14997@bfmny0.UU.NET> Reply-To: nickw@syma.susx.ac.uk (Nick Watkins) Organization: University of Sussex Lines: 16 In article <14997@bfmny0.UU.NET> tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) writes: >But if NASA were abolished totally, its functions distributed to >industry, the military and the NSF, the net funding for space science >might well stabilize at workable levels. The important question is, >why are America's space scientists so afraid of putting this to the >test. Not all of them are. See the comments of Bruce Murray at the end of his book "Journey into space" as an example. He argues for just such a separation, and cites the separation of Glavkosmos, IKI etc in the Soviet Union as possible evidence of its value. Nick -- Nick Watkins, Space & Plasma Physics Group, School of Mathematical & Physical Sciences, Univ. of Sussex, Brighton, E.Sussex, BN1 9QH, ENGLAND JANET: nickw@syma.sussex.ac.uk BITNET: nickw%syma.sussex.ac.uk@uk.ac