Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!clyde!cuae2!ihnp4!oddjob!matt
From: matt@oddjob.UUCP (Matt Crawford)
Newsgroups: sci.crypt,net.sources.d,misc.legal
Subject: Re: There are basically no export controls on public domain information.
Message-ID: 
Date: Thu, 30-Oct-86 12:21:08 EST
Article-I.D.: oddjob.1531
Posted: Thu Oct 30 12:21:08 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 31-Oct-86 20:19:07 EST
References:     
Reply-To: matt@oddjob.UUCP (Matt Crawford)
Organization: U. Chicago, Astronomy & Astrophysics
Lines: 16
Xref: mnetor sci.crypt:34 net.sources.d:622 misc.legal:214

In article  henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
>
>There was one US experiment aboard one of the Soviet "Vega"
>Halley probes.  ... It was the only experiment aboard that
>didn't have its own micro running it.  The reason was that the
>US experimenter didn't want to run afoul of US export
>bureaucrats at the last minute.

It was built by U of Chicago physicist John Simpson, the
foremost expert on dust-collection devices.  He constrained
himself to use ten-year-old technology throughout, in order to
avoid any trouble with the state department.  Oh well, at least
one US experiment went to Halley!
_____________________________________________________
Matt		University	crawford@anl-mcs.arpa
Crawford	of Chicago	ihnp4!oddjob!matt