🚀 go-pugleaf

>We may all be thankful that the people at OSC are willing to try things
>to see if they will work. Left to you, nobody would ever try anything
>since everything which doesn't exist today, in your view, can't be done
>and won't work. Progress is never made by pesismist.
>
>  Allen

   What do you call the TSS tether experiments this summer? Brand new
   technology that could revolutionize orbital transfer and power
   generation. That was those despicable fools at NASA doing this.
   Just because NASA isn't deep in development of a new space booster
   (why bother when SDIO already is) doesn't mean that they aren't
   doing important work. Just about everything they do on the Spacelab
   missions is the (ahem) dull background work needed before going on
   to bigger and better things. It's not fair to denounce NASA for
   laying the foundation while praising OSC and McDAC for erecting the
   skyscrapers.
  
   -Brian   

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