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  1. Newsgroups: sci.space
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  3. From: roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov (John Roberts)
  4. Subject: Re: DC-Y funding
  5. Message-ID: <C0Fq3r.Dyu.1@cs.cmu.edu>
  6. X-Added: Forwarded by Space Digest
  7. Sender: news+@cs.cmu.edu
  8. Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology formerly National Bureau of Standards
  9. Original-Sender: isu@VACATION.VENARI.CS.CMU.EDU
  10. Distribution: sci
  11. Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 13:41:55 GMT
  12. Approved: bboard-news_gateway
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  16. -From: aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer)
  17. -Subject: DC-Y Funding (was: How many flights are Orbiters designed for? )
  18. -Date: 6 Jan 93 01:04:41 GMT
  19.  
  20. -DoD it the only thing. Much as I wish it where otherwise, the fact
  21. -remains that the launcher buisness is a small market, not profitable
  22. -for anybody, competes with government subsidzed competition, and currently
  23. -suffers from an oversuply of launchers and too few payloads.
  24.  
  25. The Shuttle only launches about eight times a year, and represents relatively
  26. few subsidized GAS cans, mid-deck experiments, etc. Is the market really
  27. *that* small?
  28.  
  29. (And if these incidental payloads were not subsidized, the market
  30. might be even smaller.)
  31.  
  32. John Roberts
  33. roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov
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