When will the learn?

[mit-eddie!wsl.dec.com!kent@EDDIE.MIT.EDU]

It looks like NASA still hasn't figured out that sending Lucas electrics
into space is a bad idea (from this morning's NY Times, entitled "NASA
Loses Signal from Telescope Inside Shuttle"):

"...The only problem centered on the $150 million Astro-1 observatory 
in Columbia's payload bay. The signal from one of the observatory's four
telescopes was mysteriously lost. NASA spokesmen said the trouble 
might be in a ground connection to the telescope, not the instrument itself."