Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!DBraunstein.ES@PARC-MAXC.ARPA From: DBraunstein.ES@PARC-MAXC.ARPA Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Re: SPACE Digest V4 #141 Message-ID: <17609@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Fri, 16-Mar-84 10:58:00 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.17609 Posted: Fri Mar 16 10:58:00 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Mar-84 07:51:58 EST Lines: 11 A further comment with respect to the possible military use of of the proposed space station. If NASA is sucessful in forming a partner- ship with the ESA, the station cannot be used for military purposes because the charter of the ESA only permits the development of missions that are civilian, thus peaceful, and if possible profitable. NASA may have been born out of a military womb in the middle of the Cold War, and the shuttle may have been delayed because of military requirements ( -aside from the well known materials problems), but the space station is one chance to maintain a peaceful course in the near earth environment, maybe with some profit on the side!