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- From: clements@vax.oxford.ac.uk
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: ESA Future
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.172548.7735@vax.oxford.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 16:25:47 GMT
- References: <63877@hydra.gatech.EDU> <Brp9K9.3IF@zoo.toronto.edu> <63941@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1992Jul21.160023.20724@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- In article <1992Jul21.160023.20724@en.ecn.purdue.edu>, dominop@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Philippos A. Peleties) writes:
- > In article <63941@hydra.gatech.EDU> ccoprmd@prism.gatech.EDU (Matthew DeLuca) writes:
- >>In article <Brp9K9.3IF@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
- >>>In article <63877@hydra.gatech.EDU> ccoprmd@prism.gatech.EDU (Matthew DeLuca) writes:
-
- >>>>Well, yes, but then they don't have independent acess to space, which was one
- >>>>of the reasons ESA was founded in the first place. Sort of pointless.
- >>
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- The Arianne series would still be running with or without Hermes. There's your
- independent access to space.
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- >>>Not at all. Just make Russia an ESA member. It *is* a European country!
- >>
- >>Well, geographically it is partly in Europe, (it's as much Asian as
- >>European, if we want to get picky) but socially, economically, and
- >>culturally it is pretty far off...I can't see them getting into the ESA,
- >>especially with all the petty bickering and infighting among the member
- >>nations.
- >>
- > The point is this: ex-Soviet (Russian/Ukranian) technology most likely
- > will be used in some rather substantial capacity and some combination
- > of the above countries will become ESA members whether they are geographically
- > located in Europe or not.
-
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- Geography never mattered anyway. Canada's a member of ESA and ESA's launch
- facilities are in south america. ESA's just a name, and that never stopped
- politicians before...
-
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- Dave Clements, Oxford University Astrophysics Department
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- clements @ uk.ac.ox.vax | Umberto Eco is the *real* Comte de
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