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- Path: sparky!uunet!hela.iti.org!aws
- From: aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer)
- Subject: Re: Shuttle replacement
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.144309.22398@iti.org>
- Organization: Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow
- References: <1992Nov17.114446.16331@cs.tcd.ie> <1992Nov18.034010.18488@Princeton.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 14:43:09 GMT
- Lines: 21
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- In article <1992Nov18.034010.18488@Princeton.EDU> phoenix.Princeton.EDU!carlosn (Carlos G. Niederstrasser) writes:
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- >Whatever program you support lets make sure is flying before the shuttle stops.
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- That's the rub. Shuttle is a very expensive thing to fly. So much so that
- all the money which could go to building a replacement is spent operating
- the Shuttle. Every year we fly Shuttle delays its replacement by one year.
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- Shuttle doesn't do anything which can't be done by existing and near term
- systems. Let's phase it out so we can build them!
-
- >and let go of our heaviest capacity lift vehicle.
-
- Titan IV can lift any existing or planned payload Shuttle can lift.
-
- Allen
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