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Article #7824Objects for the Smithsonian (was: Space News...)
From: maw
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1987 14:19
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1987 14:19
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In article <2395@cbmvax.UUCP>, grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes:
> if NASA was to go off and to recover some nice historic space or even
> lunar debris, I'm sure the Smithsonian would love to put it on display.
> Unfortunatly, I suspect all the well known "historic" satellites have
> long since reentered. Anyone want to start a pool on the first manned
> mission to geo-synchronous orbit?
There is a document available from the government (published by NASA,
I think) called "Satellite Situation Report" which is a list of all the
objects being tracked in space. There are still some golden-oldies on
the list.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!linus!husc6!hao!oddjob!gargoyle!ihnp4!homxb!homxc!maw From: maw@homxc.UUCP Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle Subject: Objects for the Smithsonian (was: Space News...) Message-ID: <1444@homxc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 28-Sep-87 10:19:13 EDT Article-I.D.: homxc.1444 Posted: Mon Sep 28 10:19:13 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 29-Sep-87 04:17:42 EDT References: <8644@utzoo.UUCP> <182@geovision.UUCP> <2395@cbmvax.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel Lines: 22 Summary: There are some 'historic' ones still up there.