Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Timetable??
Message-ID: <1989Aug17.153336.19837@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <11187@kean.mun.ca> <101420007@hpcvlx.HP.COM>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 89 15:33:36 GMT

In article <101420007@hpcvlx.HP.COM> bturner@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Bill Turner) writes:
>Is STS-33 still a DoD mission?  I seem to remember CNN saying that the last
>mission was DoD's last shuttle flight (when they were talking about DoD going
>to expendable launchers).  Or did I miss-hear the report?

Unless there has been some dramatic development, you've mis-heard or the
CNN people were confused.  There are a number of DoD flights booked on
the shuttle, although they *are* moving towards using expendables for
most routine satellite launches.
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