Re: Things aint so bad

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From: Alan Larson
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1987 21:44

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In article <772@maccs.UUCP> gordan@maccs.UUCP (Gordan Palameta) writes:

>The shuttle, when it flies again, will be safe.
>It will *not* be cost-effective, and will *not* be able to fly often enough.

Am I the only one who is having trouble with this first claim?  There
were a large number of items (I think they called them criticality-1
items) which, if any one of the failed, would lead to catastrophe.

I don't have a list of these items, but I did have the impression that
there was very little being done them.

	Alan

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From: larson@sri-unix.ARPA (Alan Larson)
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Subject: Re: Things aint so bad
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Date: Wed, 23-Sep-87 17:44:53 EDT
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