re conference on manned lunar exploration may crystal city higgins fnalf fnal gov bill higgins beam jockey writes 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 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 it may be that they just didn t mention it or that they actually haven t thought about it i got the vague impression from their mission proposal that they weren t taking a very holistic aproach to the whole thing they seemed to want to land people on the moon by the end of the decade without explaining why or what they would do once they got there the only application i remember from the av week article was placing a telescope on the moon that s great but they don t explain why it can t be done robotically hrumph they didn t send me anything you re not hanging out with the right people apparently but i m a member besides bill i hang out with you josh hopkins jbh uxa cso uiuc edu find a way or make one attributed to hannibal
