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- From: kentm@aix.rpi.edu (Michael V. Kent)
- Subject: Re: Voyager UVS shutdown
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- Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
- References: <1992Dec17.154409.1@fnalf.fnal.gov> <1992Dec20.164145.9851@head-cfa.harvard.edu>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 06:30:03 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec20.164145.9851@head-cfa.harvard.edu> mcdowell@head-cfa.harvard.edu (Jonathan McDowell) writes:
-
- >You ain't heard nothing yet, Bill. All of the Mission Ops and Data
- >Analysis programs (IUE, Einstein, EUVE, GRO, ROSAT, etc) were called
- >to D.C. last week for an emergency review and further major cuts. The usual
- >Congress smarts - spend half a billion on getting a mission up, then cut
- >the one percent of that that would let you do a good job with the
- >results. MO&DA is one of the cheapest and most important things NASA
- >does but one of the first to get cut.
- >
- >[Declaration of interest: of course, my salary comes out of this budget,
- >so I would say that, wouldn't I.]
-
- My salary doesn't come out of this budget, and I still think it's a stupid
- thing to cut.
-
- Mike
-
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