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- From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
- Subject: Re: Reasons for SS(was Re: Precursors to Fred (was Re: Sabatier Reactors.))
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 04:08:10 GMT
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- In <1993Jan27.201146.1@fnalf.fnal.gov> higgins@fnalf.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey) writes:
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- >Microgravity materials science, currently the #2
- >justification for the station, has been waning in popularity since the
- >ballyhoo days of the early Eighties.
-
- That is hardly surprising. You have two groups of researchers: Group
- A, who try to make better materials in space, and Group B, who try to
- prove that they can do better on Earth. Group B can afford to do 100
- experiments on Earth for every one that Group A can do in orbit. The
- fact that the argument is still going on suggests that Group A is probably
- right.
-
- And the situation will not get better with Space Station Freedom.
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