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- Subject: Re: Moon Dust For Sale
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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 19:21:00 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan5.162900.14264@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>, kjenks@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov writes...
- >In article <1iaeeuINN7kq@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> banshee@cats.ucsc.edu (Wailer at the Gates of Dawn) writes:
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- >NASA is part of the Executive Branch of the U.S. Government. As such,
- >it receives its funding from the U.S. Congress. Under the U.S. Code,
- >NASA can't engage in this kind of fund-raising efforts, nor can it sell
- >advertising on rockets, hold bake sales, or even accept volunteer labor
- >from corporations (several of which have offered free services to the
- >under-funded Space Exploration Initiative). NASA gets what funding
- >Congress allows it and no more. And that funding is not enough to get
- >us "back to the moon... this time to stay." If you have a problem with
- >that, write your Congresscritter.
-
- How does that work with NASA as a launch service? For example, providing
- launch facilities/personell to universities who have constructed payloads
- and purchased a launch vehicle from the manufacturer. Or launching a
- communications sattellite from the shuttle, owned & operated by a private
- sector corporation? I thought part of the initial selling point of the
- shuttle was that NASA could recapture its investment through the "putting
- stuff in orbit" business.
-
- What about the big RCA logo on the Delta rockets (as seen in "the
- Illustrated Encyclopedia of Space Technology")? I hope RCA had to pay
- for that.
-
- I am not trying to start an arguement or anything, it just seems that
- what you said seems to contridect some of the things I've seen from
- NASA. And the wonderful publications - I hope you make money on those,
- it would be stupid not to.
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- Tim Harincar Millions long for immortality
- Central Minnesota who don't know what to do with
- Association of Rocketry themselves on a rainy Sunday
- soc1070@vx.cis.umn.edu afternoon. -Susan Ertz
-