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Re: [ARSCLIST] NASA
Hello David
On 15/08/06, David Lewis wrote:
> Tom wrote:
>
> PS -- I just read another article that NASA is now looking to
> re-acquire all manner of parts of the
> Apollo craft from various space museums so they can copy the parts for
> use on their "next
> generation" lunar craft. Wow, what's old is new. Next they'll want to
> switch to disk-cutters for
> their cap-com logger! ;)
>
> Indeed, Tom. NASA is frustrated and embarassed by the whole space
> shuttle program, and now appreciates the wisdom, economy and
> flexibility of Apollo-era technology, a culture they have lost contact
> with. There isn't anyone from that time still at NASA, and they need
> the parts to study them. Look for the Shuttles to be phased out, and
> rockets to be phased back in. Cheaper, less dangerous and more in sync
> with their future plans, which have to do primarily with long range,
> unmanned flights.
>
> Sort of like a twelve-tone composer going back to writing like
> Tchaikovsky.
Both Schoenberg and Skalkottas wrote some tonal music after WW II.
Regards
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Don Cox
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