Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site spp2.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!trwrb!trwspp!spp2!brahms From: brahms@spp2.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics,net.space Subject: Re: SPACE Issues in the Election Message-ID: <215@spp2.UUCP> Date: Mon, 5-Nov-84 16:30:33 EST Article-I.D.: spp2.215 Posted: Mon Nov 5 16:30:33 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 8-Nov-84 00:45:08 EST References: <882@ihuxp.UUCP> <203@mouton.UUCP> Reply-To: brahms@spp2.UUCP (Bradley S. Brahms) Organization: TRW, Redondo Beach CA Lines: 17 Xref: sdcsvax net.politics:5048 net.space:2844 Summary: >No, Reagan supports the space station only because its a stepping stone >for him to get his Strategic Defense Initiative. I want to see commercial >and scientific space development, including the space station, but I >can do without the space program being further raped by the Pentagon. If it wasn't for the Pentagon, there would be no space program (civilian), or at least a smaller one than the one that is already to small. I don't like the Pentagon getting into everything either, but I really believe the space program is better of because of them than it would be otherwise. -- Brad brahms usenet: {decvax,ucbvax}!trwrb!trwspp!brahms arpa: Brahms@usc-eclc [The views expressed above are my own and not those of of my employer.]