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- From: BrianT@cup.portal.com (Brian Stuart Thorn)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: Latest Pegasus news?
- Message-ID: <72487@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 92 17:19:29 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <1992Dec23.201155.29373@microsoft.com>
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- >We may all be thankful that the people at OSC are willing to try things
- >to see if they will work. Left to you, nobody would ever try anything
- >since everything which doesn't exist today, in your view, can't be done
- >and won't work. Progress is never made by pesismist.
- >
- > Allen
-
- What do you call the TSS tether experiments this summer? Brand new
- technology that could revolutionize orbital transfer and power
- generation. That was those despicable fools at NASA doing this.
- Just because NASA isn't deep in development of a new space booster
- (why bother when SDIO already is) doesn't mean that they aren't
- doing important work. Just about everything they do on the Spacelab
- missions is the (ahem) dull background work needed before going on
- to bigger and better things. It's not fair to denounce NASA for
- laying the foundation while praising OSC and McDAC for erecting the
- skyscrapers.
-
- -Brian
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- Brian S. Thorn "If ignorance is bliss,
- BrianT@cup.portal.com this must be heaven."
- -Diane Chambers, "Cheers"
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