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- From: tjn32113@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Thomas J. Nugent)
- Subject: Re: "What's New" July-24-1992
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- jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr) writes:
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- >Pretty accurate summary of the APS position. Once it became clear that
- >microgravity work was compromised by vibration, interest fell, and then
- >I think those plans were dropped from the station altogether in the
- >latest review of the project.
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- Like I've said, it has recently come out that microgravity work is _not_
- compromised - it is still possible, and in fact they expect to get some
- pretty good microgravity research out of SSF.
-
- "It's human nature to stretch, to go, to see, to understand. Exploration is
- not a choice, really, it's an imperitive."
- - Michael Collins
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- "To be average scares the hell out of me." -- Anonymous
- Tom Nugent e-mail: tjn32113@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
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