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- From: aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer)
- Subject: Re: Terminal Velocity of DCX? (was Re: Shuttle ...)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec25.042358.20407@iti.org>
- Organization: Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow
- References: <1992Dec17.163212.20944@eng.umd.edu> <1992Dec22.161111.29439@iti.org> <1992Dec25.002926.4218@ke4zv.uucp>
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 04:23:58 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec25.002926.4218@ke4zv.uucp> gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman) writes:
-
- >>Nonsense. The Russians have no problems building space stations without
- >>their Shuttle.
-
- >Nonsense. The Russians have built no space stations
-
- Please Gary, don't quibble and address the issue. Every space station which
- has ever existed was deployed wihtout the Shuttle. The space station which
- needs the Shuttle not only doesn't exist but is way over budget and is
- slipping schedule.
-
- You can obscure the issue by quibbling about Russians vs USSR but the
- fact ramains that Shuttle wasn't needed to deploy Mir (or Salyut or
- Skylab).
-
- >and are having
- >trouble raising the funds to operate the one they inherited from
- >the Soviet Union.
-
- Think of how much harder it would be on them if they insisted (as we
- do) on spending three times more than they need to for launches.
-
- Allen
-
- PS. A merry Christmas to you all.
-
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