🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <24JAN199320503892@judy.uh.edu>, wingo%cspara.decnet@Fedex.Msfc.Nasa.Gov writes:
[Spacelab, Spacehab, and COMET as precursor facilities for SS Fred]
> 
> So NASA, who you think is stupid, IS doing what you are saying there, and
> for a lot more money than a full up program of throwing away hardware.
            ^^^^
Uh-oh, Dennis, I don't think that's what you *meant* to say...

> All of the Spacelab and Spacehab experiments can be used again for very
> minimal costs, as well as the experiments returned from the COMET module.

I thought not.
 
> These experiments are all important as precursors to SSF because we can get
> all of the bugs out of the experiments and the experiment process before we
> fly them on SSF where they can be run in an effective manner, having all of t
> eh bugs worked out on less expensive platforms.  See there NASA ain't half
> as dumb as the average poster to sci.space.

It is all I can do to resist the urge to comment.

Except to say...


> Delta II/Small Expendable (Tether) Deployer System (SEDS) flight
> configuration during deployment, circa March 1993.

GO SEDSAT!!!!!  Huzzah!

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