re conference on manned lunar exploration may crystal city in article c rhoc fty news cso uiuc edu jbh uxa cso uiuc edu josh hopkins writes i remeber reading the comment that general dynamics was tied into this in connection with their proposal for an early manned landing sorry i don t rember where i heard this but i m fairly sure it was somewhere reputable anyone else know anything on this angle the general chairman is paul bialla who is some official of general dynamics the emphasis seems to be on a scaled down fast plan to put people on the moon in an impoverished spaceflight funding climate you d think it would be a golden opportunity to do lots of precusor work for modest money using an agressive series of robot spacecraft but there s not a hint of this in the brochure hrumph they didn t send me anything you re not hanging out with the right people apparently bill higgins beam jockey i m gonna keep on writing songs fermilab until i write the song bitnet higgins fnal bitnet that makes the guys in detroit internet higgins fnal fnal gov who draw the cars span hepnet higgins put tailfins on em again john prine
