On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 05:08:36 -0500, Pat Flannery
wrote:

Rusty wrote:

Oh. I thought it was because government agencies must spend all the
money they are allocated or have their budget cut the next year. NASA
received so many billions of dollars for Apollo they couldn't spend it
all. In order to spend all of the money allocated by Congress they had
the LM gold plated.

What?! Where's the ten PDF's on the history of the LM thermal blanketing?!
YOU'RE NOT RUSTY! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH RUSTY?! :-)

.....Like I said. I think what happened was that the cosmos temporarily
switched our psyches.

OM
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