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Article #4019Re: Payload of shuttle flight directly after last Challenger.
From: Bradley Enoch Huntting
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1988 23:44
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1988 23:44
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In his article <347@flatline.UUCP> erict@flatline.UUCP (eric townsend) writes: >According to activist and musician Jello Biafra, the next flight of the >shuttle was to carring a payload of 46 pounds of *plutonium*. >He claims this is from _The_Nation_ and _Common_Cause_, who got >it from NASA, who "conveniently forgot to tell us about it." > >1. Is this correct? > >2. If so, I thought there was a law or treaty or something... > [that] prohibits the launching of radioactive material... I seem to remember hearing this on network TV the day the Columbia exploded. As for Pu in space, I've never understood how a satelite could use so much power that it would need a fision reactor insted of photovoltaic cells, and a battery? Is there a weight problem? Is it a political issue? (*) (*) -brad e huntting huntting@boulder.colorado.edu ...hao!boulder!huntting
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!linus!husc6!hao!boulder!huntting From: huntting@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Bradley Enoch Huntting) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Payload of shuttle flight directly after last Challenger. Summary: Yes it's all true. Keywords: Gak, you know. The next flight. Message-ID: <1484@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Date: 3 Feb 88 23:44:52 GMT References: <347@flatline.UUCP> Reply-To: huntting@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Bradley Enoch Huntting) Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Lines: 21