Newsgroups: sci.space
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Does this proprosal make sense ? (was RE: SPACE QUEST)
Message-ID: <1989Jul22.232038.24123@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <27897@watmath.waterloo.edu> <20220@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 89 23:20:38 GMT

In article <20220@louie.udel.EDU> pezely@udel.EDU (Daniel Pezely) writes:
>The reason for the suggestion of the space contractors owning the
>adminestration corporation was so that the designers could use
>off-the-shelf components as cheaply as possible.

One trouble is that the aerospace contractors, by and large, do not have
off-the-shelf components.  They custom-build everything.  The word "cheap"
simply is not in their vocabulary.
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