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Article #7141Re: Shuttle a research tool (was: Re: Let's be more specific)
From: Henry Spencer
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 22:16
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 22:16
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In article <1993Jan5.211253.20530@cerberus.ulaval.ca> yergeau@phy.ulaval.ca (Francois Yergeau) writes:
>It is my understanding that since the post-Challenger return to flight,
>NASA has been forbidden to fly commercial stuff on the shuttle. Am I
>wrong?
Partly. They're forbidden to compete with commercial launch suppliers,
which shifted a lot of comsats and the like off the shuttle. However,
there was a long list of exceptions, and also quite a bit of stuff that
was deemed shuttle-unique for one reason or another. They still do a
fair bit of commercial business.
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"God willing... we shall return." | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
-Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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Newsgroups: sci.space Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!torn!utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Shuttle a research tool (was: Re: Let's be more specific) Message-ID: <C0EJ84.EzE@zoo.toronto.edu> Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 22:16:51 GMT References: <ewright.726168030@convex.convex.com> <1993Jan5.031431.14514@cerberus.ulaval.ca> <ewright.726254273@convex.convex.com> <1993Jan5.211253.20530@cerberus.ulaval.ca> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 13