earle@oblio.DEC (Mr. SPPR) (12/16/85)
> Unfortunately, the analogy to Apollo may be all too apt. What happens > after the First Mars Expedition returns? How long before the budget > starts getting cut back, back, back, on the grounds that "you've finished > your job"? Take a tour of KSC, and be sure you look at the Saturn V lying > on its side rusting: that was FLIGHT-READY HARDWARE, scheduled to launch > Apollo 18 or 19. Or visit the Air & Space Museum in Washington: that's a > real Skylab, intended to fly as a followon to the original; that's a real > Lunar Module, meant for Apollo 18 I believe; that's a real Viking lander > and orbiter, which many people wanted to fly as Viking 3. The people who > are pushing for a Mars mission are setting us up for the same thing, on > a much more massive scale. Yes, but think of all the great MUSEUMS we'll have!! . . - \_/ George Earle DECVAX!DECWRL!RHEA!OBLIO!EARLE Digital Equip. Co. Disclaim?! Well, why not.