Asri-unix.1281 net.space utzoo!decvax!cca!DIETZ@USC-ECL@sri-unix Thu Apr 22 07:17:12 1982 Penny Wise, Pound Foolish From: Paul Dietz I hear that NASA will be shutting down Pioneers 10 and 11 and Pioneer Venus in January because of budget cuts. Once this happens the spacecraft cannot be restarted. Saving will be around $7 million. ------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.