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From: leech@alanine.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech)
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Subject: Re: Why 3 SSME's?
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Date: 12 Oct 89 17:46:31 GMT
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In article <538.252A3A3B@mamab.FIDONET.ORG> Mike.Pompura@f49.n363.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Mike Pompura) writes:
>I submitted a proposal to NASA and Rockwell that involved the escape
>sequence for a shuttle PES system.
>...
>This is one chance that apparently the powers-to-be deam
>non-cost-effective.

    It isn't cost-effective because of the enormous payload penalty.
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    Jon Leech (leech@cs.unc.edu)    __@/
    "Opossums ran amok in Chapel Hill this weekend..."
	_The Daily Tar Heel_, 11/1/88