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From: jwm@stdc.jhuapl.edu (Jim Meritt)
Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Von Braun quote
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Date: 15 Jul 88 00:30:06 GMT
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One should be careful while griping about those pitiful deep space probes:
"They can't do much.  Think what a MAN could do there!"





After a LONG trip with no air, no food, little power,  die.
Instead of a little camera and radio you would have the fastest ice cube
in the solar system.

Big deal.  Let's see if we could manage even a poor little probe now before
cutting the past.  Say, something more than 1 Clarke orbit up....


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jwm@aplvax.jhuapl.edu 128.244.65.5  (James W. Meritt)