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From: royf@pwcs.UUCP (Roy Forsstrom)
Newsgroups: sci.aeronautics,sci.space,sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Space Station Strangles NASP
Message-ID: <10537@pwcs.UUCP>
Date: 28 Sep 89 23:09:43 GMT
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Reply-To: royf@pwcs.StPaul.GOV (Roy Forsstrom)
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In article <4983@omepd.UUCP> larry@omews10.intel.com (Larry Smith) writes:
>
>Quoting SPACE NEWS Sept. 18, 1989 (the preview issue of the new
...
>aerospace plane was deleted from the agency's spending plan".
>
>This is absurd. Just like the Ford Model-T enabled people for the
>first time to AFFORDABLY travel hundreds of miles from their homes,
>and the DC-3 to AFFORDABLY travel thousands of miles, the national 
....
>1990's concept !! Look at it yet another way ... X-30 would cost the same
>as about 4 B-2s. Which gives a better return ?

Ah, Larry, you hit the nail on the head here! The X-30 is primarily a military
plane, as is the shuttle. Perhaps the some hold the belief that the SR-71
doesn't need a replacement aircraft.

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