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  1. Newsgroups: sci.space
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!torn!utzoo!henry
  3. From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
  4. Subject: Re: Shuttle a research tool (was: Re: Let's be more specific)
  5. Message-ID: <C0EJ84.EzE@zoo.toronto.edu>
  6. Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 22:16:51 GMT
  7. References: <ewright.726168030@convex.convex.com> <1993Jan5.031431.14514@cerberus.ulaval.ca> <ewright.726254273@convex.convex.com> <1993Jan5.211253.20530@cerberus.ulaval.ca>
  8. Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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  11. In article <1993Jan5.211253.20530@cerberus.ulaval.ca> yergeau@phy.ulaval.ca (Francois Yergeau) writes:
  12. >It is my understanding that since the post-Challenger return to flight,
  13. >NASA has been forbidden to fly commercial stuff on the shuttle. Am I
  14. >wrong?
  15.  
  16. Partly.  They're forbidden to compete with commercial launch suppliers,
  17. which shifted a lot of comsats and the like off the shuttle.  However,
  18. there was a long list of exceptions, and also quite a bit of stuff that
  19. was deemed shuttle-unique for one reason or another.  They still do a
  20. fair bit of commercial business.
  21. -- 
  22. "God willing... we shall return."       | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
  23.        -Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry
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