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In article <8644@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
 > [...]  I also applaud the idea that backups
 >which aren't needed as backups should be *flown*, perhaps on a different
 >mission, rather than being donated to the Smithsonian.  If you think the
 >Viking and the Voyager in the Smithsonian look realistic, it's because
 >they *are* real.] 

    Yeah!  If the Smithsonian really wants them for museum pieces,
let them finance an expedition to go out and retrieve them *after*
the vehicles have flown their intended (or backup) missions.
    Heh heh.   
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 Alastair JW Mayer     BIX: al
                      UUCP: ...!utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!cognos!geovision!alastair

 "What we really need is a good 5-cent/gram launch vehicle."