Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!Hank.Walker@CMU-CS-VLSI.ARPA From: Hank.Walker@CMU-CS-VLSI.ARPA Newsgroups: net.space Subject: space balloons and oxygen glow Message-ID: <16565@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Feb-84 09:57:00 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.16565 Posted: Thu Feb 9 09:57:00 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Feb-84 10:01:31 EST Lines: 6 Using balloons as radar reflectors is not a stupid idea. It is an old idea that's worked before. Remember Echo? The main proponent of the oxygen glow off the shuttle ruining the UV telescope experiments is the experimenter. Lots of other people think that he just overexposed. Other experiments weren't affected.