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  11. Date: Mon, 19 Nov 1990 02:25:50 -0500 (EST)
  12. Subject: SPACE Digest V12 #576
  13.  
  14. SPACE Digest                                     Volume 12 : Issue 576
  15.  
  16. Today's Topics:
  17.              Re: Pity the Shuttle
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  28. Date: Mon, 19 Nov 1990 01:53-EST
  29. From: Barak.Pearlmutter@F.GP.CS.CMU.EDU
  30. Subject: Re: Pity the Shuttle
  31.  
  32. People are claiming that the original design goals of the shuttle can't
  33. have been primarily motivated by military considerations just because
  34. the shuttle has turned out to be overly expensive, difficult to
  35. maintain, too high tech, quite vulnerable, easily defeated with simple
  36. inexpensive countermeasures, and to have long downtimes and no clear
  37. military purpose in the current military environment.
  38.  
  39. I confess that I do not find this chain of logic exactly compelling.
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  43. End of SPACE Digest V12 #576
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