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From: brahms@spp2.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.space
Subject: Re: SPACE Issues in the Election
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Date: Mon, 5-Nov-84 16:30:33 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  5 16:30:33 1984
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Reply-To: brahms@spp2.UUCP (Bradley S. Brahms)
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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
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[The views expressed above are my own and not those of of my employer.]