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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Re: Moon Capture Theory
- Message-ID: <BxzsC1.896@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 02:02:22 GMT
- References: <BxzJA1.412.1@cs.cmu.edu>
- Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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- In article <BxzJA1.412.1@cs.cmu.edu> 18084TM@msu.edu (Tom) writes:
- >Of course, while everyone is discussing cheaper or better ways to colonize
- >the moon, why not discuss cheaper and better ways to answer these questions
- >about lunar composition? Seems to me that spending $$ to design a lunar
- >colony (as I understand NASA did/is doing) without knowing what's available
- >is the ultimate 'putting-your-eggs-in-one-basket'.
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- Better than discussing it, go visit your Congressthing and ask him to
- support Griffin's attempts to get low-cost unmanned lunar-science missions
- into the NASA budget. Griffin, at least, is fully aware of the need to do
- better geochemical surveys of the Moon before anything more ambitious...
- but he can't get any *funding* for it.
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- By the way, NASA is not even thinking about a lunar *colony*, much less
- planning one, although they are interested in lunar bases.
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