[net.columbia] French Space Program

ecl@mtgzy.UUCP (e.c.leeper) (02/07/86)

> Don't blame him, it is probably difficult to live in a country [France] that 
> sits on the sidelines and watches while we explore space.  After all,
> they think it is pretty neat that they have a booster that can but
> a satellite into orbit.

This is grossly unfair to the French, who are doing more than just about any
other country to promote space development (other than the U.S. and the USSR,
and perhaps Japan, who's going out there at all?).

					Evelyn C. Leeper
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