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- From: steinly@topaz.ucsc.edu (Steinn Sigurdsson)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: what the little bird told Henry
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- Date: 16 Dec 92 23:18:09 GMT
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- In-reply-to: ewright@convex.com's message of 16 Dec 92 22:14:10 GMT
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- In article <ewright.724544050@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
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- >Neither the Soviets nor the US had serious contingency plans in
- >place in the race to the Moon.
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- Oh? Diverting an Earth-orbital mission (Apollo 8) into a
- circumlunar flight, because of a rumor that the Soviets were
- going do it first, sounds like a contingency plan to me. Unless
- you're rewriting history again.
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- That's not a contingency plan. A contingency plan is
- "oh shit, the Saturn pogoed and blew, it will take
- two years to fix, we better switch to the Uranus VI,
- we just figured the problem with the variable nozzles on
- those..."
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- Of course there were no Uranii in the real world...
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- | Steinn Sigurdsson |I saw two shooting stars last night |
- | Lick Observatory |I wished on them but they were only satellites |
- | steinly@lick.ucsc.edu |Is it wrong to wish on space hardware? |
- | "standard disclaimer" |I wish, I wish, I wish you'd care - B.B. 1983 |
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