[sci.space.shuttle] Is `Astro' European?

heksterb@Apple.COM (Ben Hekster) (12/14/90)

Craig L. Cole writes...
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>>that the media will call it a NASA setback, because Astro was European.
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>*> ouch <*  (
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>I did it again. Astro is American. Because of this enlightnment, I'd like
>to change my opinion:
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> [...]

I was under the impression (at least that's what my paper said) that the failed
computers were in fact supplied by ESA.
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