From: utzoo!decvax!cca!TAW@S1-A@sri-unix
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Article-I.D.: sri-unix.1490
Posted: Wed May 19 14:47:18 1982
Received: Fri May 21 00:32:09 1982

From: Tom Wadlow 
Aviation Week excerpts (from the May 17, 1982 issue)

Piece of the Rock

	Space Transportation Co., which has submitted a proposal to 
NASA and the Administration for private funding of the fifth shuttle
orbiter in exchange for space transportation system marketing rights,
now has the Prudential Insurance Co. as its primary financing partner.
Space Transportation Co. has told NASA and the White House it is ready
to commit $150 million in private funds in Fiscal 1983 to help initiate
procurement of a fifth shuttle orbiter.

Page 50 contains a full page ad for Exocet missiles (the one that sunk
the HMS Sheffield).  How timely....  --Tom