Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!kcarroll
From: kcarroll@zoo.toronto.edu (Kieran A. Carroll)
Subject: Re: Intelsat salvage mission
Message-ID: <1990Aug16.201103.7395@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <2757@inews.intel.com> <1990Aug16.041135.17228@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 90 20:11:03 GMT


In article <2757@inews.intel.com> dbraun@cadev4.UUCP () writes:
>Since the Soviets are using a relatively large number of Soyuz and
>Progress vehicles, do they reuse or rebuild them, or at least reuse a lot of
>parts?  Or do they just give them to museums, like we did?

I seem to remember that some >components< of Apollo command modules were
re-used; that is, after a CM returned from a mission, various electronics
boxes and other components were removed, re-qualified, and integrated
with a CM that was waiting to fly. A fairly minor example of pre-Shuttle
reusability, but an interesting one. 
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     Kieran A. Carroll @ U of Toronto Aerospace Institute
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