pcmcgeer (06/06/82)
I've read various speculations in these newsgroups (on one occasion backed up by congressional testimony) that the DoD cargo on STS-IV isn't in fact very spectacular and that DoD is just testing NASA's security. I wonder, though, whether or not that's true. Is it just a coincidence that the President's first major address on space policy is to take place at the completion of this mission? You'd think he'd've been guaranteed a larger audience when STS-I landed. Of course, I suppose President Reagan would want a few missions to go smoothly before he committed the nation to a major space effort in the eighties.