[TriLUG] OT: shuttle launch & need C-Band digital satellite downlink

[David McDowell]

but we have velcro and tang... :D

On 6/30/06, Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack at wm7d.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Rick DeNatale wrote:
>
> > The risks are worth it if they produce knowledge.
>
> I was a regular academic researcher for 30yrs. For all the
> billions of dollars spent on the space program, I rarely saw
> a paper published. In the '50's and '60's I'd keep an eye
> out for the results of experiments from new satellites but
> never saw anything. In my area, biochemistry, for that
> amount of money (each shuttle launch is about 0.5G$), you'd
> be filling half of any journal.
>
> The ISS is just there to give the shuttle something to do.
> Presumably they'll find out again what the Russian's learned
> about living in space from Mir.
>
> Joe
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