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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Re: GAS Bridge Flights
- Message-ID: <By32sE.8nL@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 20:41:01 GMT
- References: <1992Nov19.211542.44959@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
- Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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- In article <1992Nov19.211542.44959@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> whitten@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
- >Along the same lines, what really the chances of getting on something
- >besides a bridge flight? I assume they prefer to get twelve customers
- >taken care of with one launch, so do they even consider putting
- >on just one or two cans?
-
- If you've got a *flight* *ready* payload, chances of getting on are probably
- pretty good. They have been flying small numbers of them, but so few of the
- GAS reservations actually correspond to ready-to-fly payloads that some of
- those GAS cans have contained only ballast.
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- MS-DOS is the OS/360 of the 1980s. | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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