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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: space news from Aug 14 AW&ST
Message-ID: <1989Sep28.202514.4324@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1989Sep25.014005.1837@utzoo.uucp> <1394@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 89 20:25:14 GMT

In article <1394@syma.sussex.ac.uk> nickw@syma.susx.ac.uk (Nick Watkins) writes:
>>  This bird is at a lower
>> altitude than the Lacrosse launched last year, and was deployed using the
>> arm, which Lacrosse wasn't. 
>
>Article in fact says it was other way round.

I got the altitude right but the arm wrong -- just misread the paragraph.

>OK. So I'm ignorant. Who is D.D. Harriman?

D.D. Harriman was the fictitious protagonist of Robert A Heinlein's classic
story "The Man Who Sold The Moon" -- a Carnegie-style robber-baron plutocrat
who founded commercial spaceflight.

> Meanwhile, I was beginning to
>believe that Henry's summaries might be the on-line version of AW&ST
>mentioned in "2010"...

Afraid not. :-)  McG-H would undoubtedly want money for that!  (Although
the typically-one-month delay between the cover date and my postings is
mostly just how long it takes for me to receive, read, and summarize the
issues, and the terseness is mostly just a matter of minimizing typing
time, I also prefer to avoid any appearance of competing with the
magazine itself.)
-- 
"Where is D.D. Harriman now,   |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
when we really *need* him?"    | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu