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Subject: SPACE Digest V11 #221
SPACE Digest Volume 11 : Issue 221
Today's Topics:
Public viewing of HST images
Re: Public viewing of HST images
Re: Will we lose another orbiter?
Re: What does it cost to push a pound into orbit?
Re: Velikovsky's Theory
Re: Ejection seats
Re: Discovery's spin
Pegasus scrub
Galileo Update - 04/04/90
Re: NASA Headline News for 03/29/90 (Forwarded)
Re: Seeing the Jupiter picture (Was Re: HST Image Status)
Subject: Re: NASA Headline News for 03/29/90 (Forwarded)
In article <383@mtndew.UUCP> friedl@mtndew.UUCP (Steve Friedl) writes:
>> It takes a million years and a zillion dollars to make a manipulator
>> arm, human controlled.
>
> ... only because it was built in Canada.
> Steve :-)
As Spar Aerospace, builders of the Canadarm, are fond of pointing out,
numerous similar nasty comments :-) were made by the US contractor who
wanted the job... the same company that went on to build that gem of low
cost and right-from-the-start reliability, the shuttle toilet.
--
Apollo @ 8yrs: one small step.| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
Space station @ 8yrs: .| uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu
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Date: 4 Apr 90 21:12:51 GMT
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