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Tue Nov 17 03:35:51 1981
SPACE Digest V2 #35
>From OTA@S1-A Tue Nov 17 02:52:20 1981
SPACE Digest                                      Volume 2 : Issue 35
Today's Topics:
		      Let the Truth be known....   
			      Another poll  
		     News coverage of shuttle flight
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Date: 16 Nov 1981 1032-PST
From: Tom Wadlow <TAW AT S1-A>
Subject: Let the Truth be known....   
To:   space at MIT-MC  
I heard a fellow from the Flat Earth Society on the radio this
morning, talking about the second shuttle flight.  He claims the
following:
	- Columbia was launched, alright, but landed in the ocean,
	and was recovered shortly after launch.
	- It could not have orbited the Earth, (which is, of course,
	flat) and thus those spectacular pictures from the on-board
	cameras were produced (as were all the other space pictures) in
	a special effects studio.
	- Columbia was dried off, and flown to the Mojave desert, where
	it was dropped from the 747 (he believes in them, I guess) and
	glided to a landing at Edwards.
	- The money spent on the space program is all going to Florida,
	which we know is the headquarters for quite a bit of drug
	traffic and organized crime.  This is, of course, being subsidized
	by NASA, since it cannot possibly have used that money to
	build space vehicles.
Having now been told the Truth, I trust that all the readers of SPACE
Digest will cancel their subscriptions and devote their energies toward
the important things that can be done here on Earth, such as repealing
the Laws of Physics, and making Pi equal to 3.00000.....
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Date: 16 Nov 1981 1212-PST
From: Ted Anderson <OTA AT S1-A>
Subject: Another poll  
To:   space at MIT-MC  
a266  1857  13 Nov 81
AM-Poll Facts,530
With AM-Space Poll
    NEW YORK (AP) - Telephone interviews with 1,598 adults across the
country Oct. 25-26 were the basis for the Associated Press-NBC News
poll on the U.S. space program.
    Telephone numbers were selected for the survey in such a way as to
give every household a roughly equal chance of being chosen. The
sample was drawn in order to reflect accurately the makeup of the
country by region and by city size. A procedure was used to give a
proper balance of men and women in the sample.
    As with all sample surveys, the results of AP-NBC News polls can
vary from the opinion of all Americans because of chance variations in
the sample.
    For a poll based on about 1,600 interviews, the results are subject
to an error margin of 3 percentage points either way because of
chance variations. That is, if one could have talked this past week to
all Americans with telephones, there is only 1 chance in 20 that the
findings would vary by more than 3 percentage points.
    Of course, the results could differ from other polls for a number of
reasons. Differences in the exact wording of questions, differences
in when the interviews were conducted and different methods of
interviewing could also cause variations.
    Here are some of the questions and the results from the AP-NBC News
poll:
    1. Do you think the space shuttle program is a good investment for
this country, or don't you think so?
    Yes - 60 percent.
    No - 30 percent.
    Not sure - 10 percent.
    2. Should the emphasis of the U.S. space program be primarily on
national defense or on scientific exploration?
    Defense - 43 percent.
    Science - 40 percent.
    Both - 9 percent.
    Not sure - 8 percent.
    3. Do you think the United States should keep its space program
separate from other countries, or should the U.S. engage in joint
space ventures with other nations? Would you favor a joint space
program between the United States and the Soviet Union?
    Separate - 46 percent.
    With U.S.S.R. - 32 percent.
    With other countries, but not U.S.S.R. - 15 percent.
    Not sure - 7 percent.
    4. Do you think people from Earth will eventually colonize the moon
or other planets, or don't you think so?
    Yes - 42 percent.
    No - 49 percent.
    Not sure - 9 percent.
    
ap-ny-11-13 2155EST
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Date: 16 November 1981 15:23-EST
From: Robert Elton Maas <REM MIT-MC AT>
Sender: ___103 at MIT-MC
Subject: News coverage of shuttle flight
To: SPACE at MIT-MC
According to the noon news today on channel 5 (KPIX), the landing of the
shuttle was deliberately made more difficult the second time to test it more
fully. I recall they were going to land cross-wind, but changed their mind
because the wind was too strong and landed into the wind just like the first
time. They let the computer fly the ship during some of the descent, and they
tested the full range of aerodynamic handling during re-entry, but I don't
recall anything about the landing that was actually made more difficult than
the first time. Is there anything I missed? Or did KPIX get sloppy and refer to
the re-entry as if it were the landing? Or did KPIX forget the cross-wind
landing had been cancelled?
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