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In article <1992Dec25.002926.4218@ke4zv.uucp> gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman) writes:

>>Nonsense. The Russians have no problems building space stations without
>>their Shuttle.

>Nonsense. The Russians have built no space stations 

Please Gary, don't quibble and address the issue. Every space station which
has ever existed was deployed wihtout the Shuttle. The space station which
needs the Shuttle not only doesn't exist but is way over budget and is
slipping schedule. 

You can obscure the issue by quibbling about Russians vs USSR but the
fact ramains that Shuttle wasn't needed to deploy Mir (or Salyut or
Skylab).

>and are having
>trouble raising the funds to operate the one they inherited from 
>the Soviet Union. 

Think of how much harder it would be on them if they insisted (as we
do) on spending three times more than they need to for launches.

    Allen

PS. A merry Christmas to you all.

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