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- From: gallas2@marcus.its.rpi.edu (Sean Michael Gallagher)
- Subject: Re: SSF & Mir & Energia
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:00:42 GMT
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- roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov (John Roberts) writes:
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- >Energia (it's only flown twice). The main problem with choosing these options
- >at this point is that if they are to be used, the decision should have been
- >made several years ago.
-
- Yes, but several years ago we were too busy worrying about whether the Soviets'
- more advanced booster technology would be used to lob a couple of hundred
- nuclear missles our way. The Russians are offering us help (for a fee), so
- why are we so unwilling to accept it? Goldin's NASA is supposed to work
- smarter, faster, and cheaper, and Energia is a heckuva lot faster and cheaper
- than Shuttle, and that seems like a smart idea to me.
-