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- From: bwebster@pages.com (Bruce F. Webster)
- Subject: Re: Clinton's Promises (space) in Charlotte Observer
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.021023.8557@pages.com>
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- References: <21JAN199320444611@judy.uh.edu>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 02:10:23 GMT
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- In article <21JAN199320444611@judy.uh.edu>
- wingo%cspara.decnet@Fedex.Msfc.Nasa.Gov writes:
- > In article <ewright.727553712@convex.convex.com>, ewright@convex.com (Edward
- V. Wright) writes...
- > >In <rabjab.31.727504007@golem.ucsd.edu> rabjab@golem.ucsd.edu (rabjab)
- writes:
- > >
- > >>> B. Support completion of the space station Freedom.
- > >
- > >>Looks like Clinton is going to make some rather severe cuts in space
- > >>projects. And "supporting completion" doesn't mean actual completion.
- > >
- > >You don't understand. NASA doesn't *want* Space Station Freedom
- > >completed.
- > >
- >
- > No you don't understand and your statement is a prime reason people like
- > you are not listened to at NASA. Even looking at the proposition from a
- > pragmatical political perspective, this statment of yours is false. Why?
- >
- > If NASA drags their feet and does not finish the station costs soar and
- > nothing gets done.
-
- Space Station Freedom was originally proposed in what? 1982?, was supposed to
- be on orbit and operational in 1992, and was supposed to cost a total of $8B.
- It is now 1993, not a single actual piece of Fred has been built (much less
- placed on orbit), and the estimated total cost is $40B and rising. Q.E.D.
-
- I used to work for NASA (as an employee of Singer/Link, the former contractor
- on the Space Shuttle Flight Simulator at JSC) and also worked at the Lunar and
- Planetary Institute next door. I have friends who are still heavily involved in
- the space industry at various levels. I happen to think that the best thing
- Clinton could do would be to kill SS Fred and offer $10B, tax-free, to the
- first US corporation or consortium to put a station on orbit and keep it
- staffed by at least X people for a year and day. He should also offer $5B to
- the second corporation/consortium to do the same thing. The government would
- spend less, create more jobs, and built an 21st century industrial base.
- ..bruce..
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