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Article #8474Re: Commercial Space Launch Act of 1988
From: Alastair Mayer
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1989 16:05
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1989 16:05
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In article <672@ablnc.ATT.COM> rcpilz@ablnc.ATT.COM (Robert C. Pilz) writes:
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>What he meant by that is that the big 3 (McDonnell Douglas Corp.,
>General Dynamics Corp., and (Orlando's) Martin Marietta have increased
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>the number of commercial payload contracts from 2 in 1987 to the
Actually, Martin-Marietta Orlando is involved with electronics/control
systems (I think). The (Titan) launchers are made in Denver. (Martin also
makes the Shuttle ETs, at Michoud).
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"The problem is not that spaceflight is expensive, | Alastair J.W. Mayer
therefore only the government can do it, but that | alastair@geovision.UUCP
only the government is doing spaceflight, therefore | al@BIX
it is expensive." |
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!ncar!ames!lll-winken!uunet!mitel!sce!cognos!geovision!alastair From: alastair@geovision.uucp (Alastair Mayer) Newsgroups: sci.space Subject: Re: Commercial Space Launch Act of 1988 Keywords: Space Commerce Message-ID: <540@geovision.UUCP> Date: 30 Jan 89 16:05:31 GMT References: <672@ablnc.ATT.COM> Reply-To: alastair@geovision.UUCP (Alastair Mayer) Organization: GeoVision Corp, Ottawa, Canada Lines: 15