Re: How journalists write 'balanced' shuttle articles -- like watching sausages and laws being made?

On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 20:03:58 +0000, in a place far, far away, Rémy
MERCIER <Rmy.MERCIER.1toa9p@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> made the phosphor on my
monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:


>> No, we could build a facility in L1 that would be much more useful for
>> that.-
>>
>> And that idea seems even more expensive than simply completing the
>> ISS.-
>>
>> No, it could actually be done much cheaper, if that's the goal.
>> Recall that ISS is expensive because a) it used the Shuttle and b) it
>> was primarily a jobs program, secondarily a foreign aid program and
>> the goal of actually building a useful space station was way down the
>> list.
>
>hi
>???"""a foreign aid program"""???
>I do not understand.

Well, that's obvious. There's much you don't understand.
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