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In article <n12d5t@ofa123.fidonet.org> David.Anderman@ofa123.fidonet.org writes:
> 
>Daniel Goldin. Under his administration, NASA is saying and doing things that 
>would have been hard to imagine years ago. Their Procurement office is talking 
>about not only purchasing lunar, but also Martian, data as well. It is
>possible that the LRDPA (what an acronym) may become obsolete next year, as
>NASA may decide, through the President, to request funding for purchase of
>lunar data.

It seems to me that data purchase belongs more under NSF charter than
NASA's R&D charter. Not that data purchase is a bad idea mind you, just
that you're probably looking in the wrong pocket. Of course it's all the
same pair of pants. :-)

Gary

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