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- From: BrianT@cup.portal.com (Brian Stuart Thorn)
- Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle,sci.space
- Subject: Re: Shuttle replacement
- Message-ID: <69649@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 17:53:56 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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- >> Atlas and Delta are providing profits for the companies that make them <<
-
- As for Delta, absolutely, positively right. But I fail to see how depositing
- two enormously expensive satellites in the Atlantic can be said to be
- a profit for General Dynamics and the Atlas. One more misfire, and GD might
- be relegated to government flights only (Ariane will make a killing).
-
- Besides, you seem to have missed my point.
-
- The Space Shuttle was already more-or-less paid for, so why not use it.
- I was trying to say (got sidetracked, I must admit) that the U.S. should
- have put its money into a new unmanned booster system, not tired old
- designs like Titan and Atlas. In the meantime, we should have continued to
- use Shuttle to launch as much as possible until an NLS-or-whatever came
- online. It would be online by now, I think, if we hadn't taken the Titan IV
- plunge.
-
- -Brian
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