Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: DoD and Atlantis
Message-ID: <1990Nov15.045820.18398@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <11209@goofy.Apple.COM> <1742@atlas.tegra.COM>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 90 04:58:20 GMT

In article <1742@atlas.tegra.COM> vail@tegra.COM (Johnathan Vail) writes:
>I had read (somewhere) that the reason the DOD uses Atlantis mostly is
>because *they* paid for it...

No, the orbiters all came out of the NASA budget, which is one reason
why NASA wasn't keen on the idea of officially dedicating some of them
to military missions.
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