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In article <1993Jan7.111550.6043@iti.org> aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer) writes:
>In article <1993Jan7.033118.1652@cerberus.ulaval.ca> yergeau@phy.ulaval.ca (Francois Yergeau) writes:
>
>>But the airlines do not contract out their operations.  They procure
>>planes, and fly them, just like NASA buys shuttles and operates them.
>>It's certainly proper, legal, and it's not clear to me that doing
>>otherwise would be beneficial.
>
>Commercial launch services cost the government 30% to 50% less then when
>government buys and operates the system itself. It is therefore very clear
>that doing otherwise would be very beneficial.

This has never been demonstrated for manned spaceflight, but may very
well be.  DC will be a very good occasion to try out, if Murphy's law
can be circumvented.  But didn't I read not long ago that MacDD would not operate DC?  Who would?

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