Re: Reasons for SS(was Re: Precursors to Fred (was Re: Sabatier Reactors.))

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From: Edward V. Wright
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 04:08

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In <1993Jan27.201146.1@fnalf.fnal.gov> higgins@fnalf.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey) writes:

>Microgravity materials science, currently the #2
>justification for the station, has been waning in popularity since the
>ballyhoo days of the early Eighties.

That is hardly surprising.  You have two groups of researchers:  Group
A, who try to make better materials in space, and Group B, who try to
prove that they can do better on Earth.  Group B can afford to do 100
experiments on Earth for every one that Group A can do in orbit.  The
fact that the argument is still going on suggests that Group A is probably
right.

And the situation will not get better with Space Station Freedom.

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