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- From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
- Subject: Re: Shuttle a research tool (was: Re: Let's be more specific)
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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 17:17:53 GMT
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- In <1993Jan5.031431.14514@cerberus.ulaval.ca> yergeau@phy.ulaval.ca (Francois Yergeau) writes:
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- >>If you pay Air France to fly your laser to the research site,
- >>does that mean the Airbus is a research vehicle?
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- >No, it's an aircraft _I_ am using to support my research activities.
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- No, it's an aircraft you and hundred other passengers are using
- to support a wide range of activities.
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- >Ditto, mutatis mutandis. Likewise, when NASA flies Spacelab, TSS or a
- >TDRS on the shuttle, the latter is used to support NASA's research
- >activities, pursuant to its charter.
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- So, if your lab bought its own Airbus, hired its own flight crew,
- sold flights to paying customer, constructed its own communications
- facilities and rented those to commercial customers, all of that
- would be research and development?
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- >It is my understanding that this thread originated when someone
- >claimed that NASA was not respecting its charter by operating the
- >shuttle, which is admittedly not an experimental craft anymore. I
- >disagree, as long as the shuttle manifest contains only genuine R&D.
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- Which hasn't been the case for many years now.
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