Well, no response from Mr. Griffin yet. :-(

Mr. Griffin may not even know about President Reagan's offer, may not even
care about President Reagan's offer, and may be only concerned with
maintaining the status quo at his agency. Oh, well.

Looks like I need to take a different approach to get my Free External Tank.
Who is the right person to write? So, that I'm not wasting my time? The one
who might be able to....

Hummm, that would be Congress. They control the purse strings. A nice little
piece of legislation my get my my Free ET. A new law ... something along
the lines of ...

NASA cannot fund, design, build...operate, participate in the Earth to LEO,
LEO to Earth transportation, other than paying for the price of a ticket to
accomplish science and manned exploration of the Moon, Mars and Solar
System.

That should carve out a nice chunk for a "free" market in LEO to grow and
fill. NASA manned exploration would have to begin and end in LEO, all
transportation to and from LEO and Earth would be purchased on the
open "free" market at market prices. Essentially cutting the legs out from
underneath NASA, giving NASA the motivation to help Private Enterprise
become successful in building a "free" open market in LEO. Something
Private Enterprise wants to do anyway. It would also give confidence to
investors to invest their money in manned LEO transportation systems. Every
can see, NASA really does want to explore the Moon and Mars again,
including Private Enterprise and the American Public.

I'd call this a Win-Win situation, NASA wins, Private Enterprise wins.

Anybody else interested in helping work on a bill to nurture and develop a
LEO market. A change like this might take five or ten years to get passed,
and might need a little more work. Things like, what to do with the Space
Station.

Just a Thought,

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Craig Fink
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Jeff Findley wrote:


"Craig Fink" wrote in message
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Hi Mr. Griffin,

I'd like to take President Reagan up on the offer for a "free" External
Tank. I'd like the next one, would you please store it somewhere on the
Space Station for me.

Thanks,
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Craig Fink
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I thought we went through this last week. It isn't going to happen.

Are you off your meds or something? Are the upcoming holidays stressing
you
out or something? You seem a lot nuttier than usual. You're approaching
killfile potential.

I didn't know that Mr. Griffin and Mr. Findley were one and the same?

Please decide what you want to do with your filters, it makes no difference
to me one way or the other. I've been very patient with you. My posting
style is mine, not yours, and please do not include "me" in your "we", if
you see me respond to you, it's not you I'm responding to, unless you see
something in your in-basket. And when I say "you", it's not you Mr.
Findley, "we" have discussed nothing. And, if you have no idea what I am
talking about and are confused, so what, Mr. Findley. My patience with you
is wearing thin, but that's my problem, not yours, have a nice day. :-)