🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <20996@ames.arc.nasa.gov> yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) writes:
>Paula Cleggett
>NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.              January 18, 1989
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>Kari Fluegel
>Johnson Space Center, Houston
>
>
>RELEASE:  89-6
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>NASA CALLS FOR PROPOSALS REGARDING REUSABLE REENTRY SATELLITE

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>roughly 6-feet in diameter and weighing more than 2,000 pounds 
>with a useful payload of 500 pounds.

 Hmm, does that mean that if I can design a 6-foot diameter reusable
vehicle with a payload of 500 pounds, and the vehicle only weighs, say 1000
pounds, that I have to design in a bunch of ballast to bring it up
to the "more than 2000 lb" spec'd in the RFP?

 Sounds like a NASA proposal, all right :-)

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