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- From: kwp@wag.caltech.edu (Kevin W. Plaxco)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: Shuttle thermal tiles
- Date: 21 Dec 1992 23:27:54 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
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- References: <SHAFER.92Dec16174532@ra.dfrf.nasa.gov> <BzHEJ7.8t6@zoo.toronto.edu> <1992Dec21.171239.25448@eng.umd.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec21.171239.25448@eng.umd.edu> sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu writes:
- >
- >A call to the Russian embassy or Glav-whomever, perhaps? Say you're a
- >researcher and offer 'em $20 bucks (U.S.) for the data. Heck, $30 and shipping
- >would probably get you a used Buran tile. :)
-
- A friend who works with Payload Systems (the folks who pissed off the
- pro fred crowd with the "micro gee xtalography is not really any
- better than 1 gee xtalography" paper in Nature recently) was *GIVEN*
- a free Buran tile last time he visited space city (or whatever it is
- they've decided to call the place). It's surprisingly dense.
-
- It's got a tacky plastic copy of a Proton glued to it.
-
- -Kevin
-
-