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- From: gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman)
- Subject: Re: LEI financing
- Message-ID: <1992Dec25.015249.5121@ke4zv.uucp>
- Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman)
- Organization: Destructive Testing Systems
- References: <n12d5t@ofa123.fidonet.org>
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 01:52:49 GMT
- Lines: 21
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- In article <n12d5t@ofa123.fidonet.org> David.Anderman@ofa123.fidonet.org writes:
- >
- >Daniel Goldin. Under his administration, NASA is saying and doing things that
- >would have been hard to imagine years ago. Their Procurement office is talking
- >about not only purchasing lunar, but also Martian, data as well. It is
- >possible that the LRDPA (what an acronym) may become obsolete next year, as
- >NASA may decide, through the President, to request funding for purchase of
- >lunar data.
-
- It seems to me that data purchase belongs more under NSF charter than
- NASA's R&D charter. Not that data purchase is a bad idea mind you, just
- that you're probably looking in the wrong pocket. Of course it's all the
- same pair of pants. :-)
-
- Gary
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