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On 2002-06-03 15:18, cosmicdave wrote:
Oh how convenient, and you don’t think this is suspect? If this were the situation in the UK there would be a national outcry if our Government dared to destroy evidence of a piece of our History of such great significance. Why didn’t NASA offer the documents to a private buyer?
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Well that's cool. The next time the Yankee Air Force is looking to acquire design specs of the de Havilland Comet for it's library and gets told by de Havilland and Bombardier that these documents don't exist anymore we can just warn them about the public outcry in the UK if they don't caugh up what we're looking for.
I don't think you have a clue as to how many documents you're talking about and what the cost of storing them would be. Private contractors weren't going to do it without public funding. Taxpayers in this country got tired of funding the missions themselves after they had accomplished their goal, think they were going to fund a couple of Indiana Jones-style warehouses just to store, catalog and maintain a bunch of obscure documents most of them wouldn't understand anyways?
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