re stephen hawking tours jpl in article apr kelvin jpl nasa gov baalke kelvin jpl nasa gov ron baalke writes using a model of mars observer albee spent several minutes describing the project and the spacecraft s features in answer to a question from hawking chahine described a proposed drag free satellite but confirmed that at this point it s only a concept chahine who had met hawking at caltech about five too bad they didn t give him a tour of the cgro data i think he d be fascinated by the gamma ray bursters the mind of hawking might even propose a mechanism so what s a drag free satellite coated with wd carries an aluminum gold set of grateful dead albums inquiring minds want to know and why would mo carry any features for being drag free i thought aero braking was a possible mo experimental activity pat
