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Subject:Re: Friday:Is NASA using Vanagon parts on the Space Shuttle ?
From:David Marshall
Date:Fri, 20 Nov 1998 19:59:52 -0800

I saw a cartoon depecting the MIR space station as a 1960s VW bus that was
falling apart faster than they could put it together.

At 21:30 20/11/98 -0500, Jim DiGennaro wrote:
>Hi Volks,
>  I was surfing the TV last nite and stopped to see a movie about the
>space shuttle on ABC.  The main character was fixing somthing called the
>APU and he needed a gasket for it so he borrowed one from another piece
>of equipment.  Funny thing was the piece of equipment looked remarkably
>like a vanagon waterboxer head without any valves in it. Did anyone else
>see it.  Cool are they using Vanagon parts on the shuttle?  And they
>said Vanagon Wasserboxer head were junk. IF NASA can use them maybe we
>should rethink this would head gasket problem.  Just a little Friday
>humor.
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