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- From: higgins@fnalf.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Saves Less Money This Way (was Re: Sabatier Reactors.)
- Date: 25 Jan 93 20:42:15 -0600
- Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
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- In article <24JAN199320503892@judy.uh.edu>, wingo%cspara.decnet@Fedex.Msfc.Nasa.Gov writes:
- [Spacelab, Spacehab, and COMET as precursor facilities for SS Fred]
- >
- > So NASA, who you think is stupid, IS doing what you are saying there, and
- > for a lot more money than a full up program of throwing away hardware.
- ^^^^
- Uh-oh, Dennis, I don't think that's what you *meant* to say...
-
- > All of the Spacelab and Spacehab experiments can be used again for very
- > minimal costs, as well as the experiments returned from the COMET module.
-
- I thought not.
-
- > These experiments are all important as precursors to SSF because we can get
- > all of the bugs out of the experiments and the experiment process before we
- > fly them on SSF where they can be run in an effective manner, having all of t
- > eh bugs worked out on less expensive platforms. See there NASA ain't half
- > as dumb as the average poster to sci.space.
-
- It is all I can do to resist the urge to comment.
-
- Except to say...
-
-
- > Delta II/Small Expendable (Tether) Deployer System (SEDS) flight
- > configuration during deployment, circa March 1993.
-
- GO SEDSAT!!!!! Huzzah!
-
- Of course, what Shakespeare | Bill Higgins, Beam Jockey
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