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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!gatech!kd4nc!ke4zv!gary
  2. From: gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.space
  4. Subject: Re: Soyuz as ACRV
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug20.134030.8206@ke4zv.uucp>
  6. Date: 20 Aug 92 13:40:30 GMT
  7. References: <6AUG199200265746@judy.uh.edu> <1992Aug6.140904.23812@iti.org> <1992Aug10.073034.29443@ke4zv.uucp> <Bt8op4.8y3.1@cs.cmu.edu>
  8. Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman)
  9. Organization: Gannett Technologies Group
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  12. In article <Bt8op4.8y3.1@cs.cmu.edu> jch+@cs.cmu.edu (Jonathan Hardwick) writes:
  13. >
  14. >Uh-huh.  Wings are great for getting back down cheaply.  Wings suck
  15. >for getting up there in the first place.  Spam-in-a-can is going to be
  16. >economically justified for a long time to come, and if the US space
  17. >program sticks exclusively with winged vehicles, it's going to be
  18. >throwing money away that could be used for something else.
  19.  
  20. Yeah but I'd rather have an operational space transporter than higher
  21. VA benefits.
  22.  
  23. Gary
  24.