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From: hwt@.uucp (Henry Troup)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Vandenburg (was Re: Two Shuttles at Once???)
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Date: 19 Sep 89 19:23:31 GMT
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In article <1989Sep14.161150.25944@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>thoroughly mothballed and would be quite expensive to revive.  Much of the
>support equipment has dispersed to other uses, the skilled crews have done
>likewise, and in general the USAF has completely lost interest.

Are we using mothballed as a polite term for abandoned ?  It seems to
me that the picture of I have of mothballed is 'put away with some
thought for reactivation' - not canibilized!
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