Xref: utzoo sci.aeronautics:73 sci.space:14258 sci.space.shuttle:3699 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!rutgers!uwvax!umn-d-ub!umn-cs!nis!pwcs!royf 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 References: <4983@omepd.UUCP> Reply-To: royf@pwcs.StPaul.GOV (Roy Forsstrom) Distribution: usa Organization: City of Saint Paul, Dept. of Public Works Lines: 22 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. -----------------------------------+------------------------------------------- Roy Forsstrom 612-298-5569 | Traveling makes one modest. You see Public Works Computer Services | what tiny place you occupy in the world. pwcs!royf royf@pwcs.StPaul.GOV | -Flaubert -----------------------------------+-------------------------------------------