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From: megazone@wpi.WPI.EDU (MEGAZONE 23)
Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: New Shuttle Engines
Message-ID: <1990Nov15.024856.24199@wpi.WPI.EDU>
Date: 15 Nov 90 02:48:56 GMT
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In article <1990Nov14.071003.24567@cimage.com> gregc@dgsi.UUCP (Greg Cronau/10000) writes:
>In article <1990Nov13.190528.5893@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>>The definitive Shuttle C proposal wanted to use life-expired shuttle engines

What is the status of the Shuttle-C program now?
>I can understand why reviving the Saturn program would be damn near impossible,
>but what problems were encountered with reviving just the F-1 engine program?

I heard that NASA 'lost' the plans to the F1 and that the private companies
that are interested in the engine are going through the long a tiring process
of reverse engineering one. Seems the plans were lost during the early stage
of shuttle development, around the time officials were looking at dumb 
boosters again. hmmmm.

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