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Re: Are We Exploring Space? (was Re: Fourth Shuttle?)

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From: Steve Emmerson
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1989 17:25
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leech@cezanne.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech) writes:

[Talking about the advantages of manned space exploration]

>Then
>there are all those remote sensing experiments conducted from Skylab,
>Shuttle, and Mir.  Sending up the oceanographer (oops, forgot his
>name, Jean something) is one of the better examples.

As a former physical-oceanographer and member of the Satellite 
Remote-Sensing Group at the University of Miami, I can tell you that
he learned nothing we didn't already know -- from remote-sensing.

--Steve Emmerson	steve@unidata.ucar.edu
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