Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Shuttle Status for 06/12/89 (Forwarded)
Message-ID: <1989Jun19.192425.4626@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <26850@ames.arc.nasa.gov> <9031@fluke.COM>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 89 19:24:25 GMT

In article <9031@fluke.COM> vince@tc.fluke.COM (Craig Johnson) writes:
>Can anyone share with us to what extent shuttle components and
>subsystems are being swapped back and forth between the different
>shuttles today?  Is the situation improving?

My understanding is that it still happens a little bit, but not nearly
to the same extent as before Challenger.  NASA has not really allocated
enough funding to the problem to eliminate it completely -- we'll see
what happens when there are four orbiters in operation and they're trying
to get the space station up too -- but they have made some effort.
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