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So what do you guys think of the original 1984-85 station design?

Lee — 5/23/2005 7:16:04 AM (archived)

The large duel keel station which was to be placed in the orbit Hubble occupies. It was suppose to be our gatway to the solar system, acting as both a shipyard and homeport to large space based interplanetary ships.

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Now JWST, SIM, and TPF are Threatened? - LJK - 5/21/2005 1:23:44 PM
- re: Now JWST, SIM, and TPF are Threatened? - Delbert - 5/22/2005 4:04:47 PM
  - Just who are these anti-spacers, exactly? - ljk - 5/23/2005 1:11:42 PM
    - Historical examples - Gary - 5/23/2005 4:54:28 PM
      - re: Historical examples - p - 5/23/2005 8:03:52 PM
        
        re: Historical examples - ljk - 5/23/2005 8:21:48 PM
      - re: Historical examples - ljk - 5/23/2005 6:38:17 PM
  - You've nailed it - Gary - 5/22/2005 11:15:17 PM
- By far the worst problem for astronomers - Nick Hoffman - 5/22/2005 1:04:52 AM
  - Mike Griffin is aware of this - Gary - 5/22/2005 3:38:32 AM
    - the real political reason for not cancelling ISS/Shuttle now - pwokenyaw - 5/23/2005 1:54:14 PM
    - re: Mike Griffin is aware of this - ljk - 5/23/2005 12:56:34 PM
    - re: Mike Griffin - Buck Galaxy - 5/22/2005 4:35:39 AM
      - He's my hero too - Gary - 5/22/2005 5:49:49 AM
        
        To be fair... - dtb - 5/22/2005 2:29:56 PM
        
        So what do you guys think of the original 1984-85 station design? - Lee - 5/23/2005 7:16:04 AM
        
        The window-of-opportunity was with SEI and Bush-Senior - Gary - 5/22/2005 10:58:48 PM
        
        re: The window-of-opportunity was with SEI and Bush-Senior - dtb - 5/23/2005 2:29:51 AM
        
        A big driver is military applications of aerospace technology - Gary - 5/23/2005 4:39:30 PM
        
        re: The window-of-opportunity was with SEI and Bush-Senior - phil - 5/23/2005 1:06:27 AM
        
        re: The window-of-opportunity was with SEI and Bush-Senior - Raoul - 5/23/2005 5:27:48 AM
        
        The view of the Milky Way from the dark side would be its match (n/t) - Sam F. - 5/23/2005 8:57:10 AM
        
        What dark side? - ljk - 5/23/2005 7:03:52 PM
        
        I think it's the chocolate coating. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 5/23/2005 8:24:32 PM
        
        More on when ISS could have been stopped - dtb - 5/22/2005 2:54:36 PM
        
        The universl assumption here - E.P. Grondine - 5/22/2005 3:18:43 PM
- The Mars program has issues as well - Gary - 5/21/2005 11:50:03 PM

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