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From: gwh@monsoon.Berkeley.EDU (George William Herbert)
Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: New Shuttle Engines
Summary: Shuttle C/Z
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Date: 16 Nov 90 05:40:39 GMT
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In article <1990Nov15.173318.7370@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>>What is the status of the Shuttle-C program now?
>
>Stalled, pending funding.  It doesn't help that a whole lot of irrelevancies
>got loaded in on top of the basic Shuttle C design in the funding plan.  It
>would almost make you think that somebody didn't want it to succeed...

Various people are doing work on it.  Even Martin Marietta is working on one
(the four-engine 100-ton to LEO shuttle Z).  But, it isn't getting funding.
Despite being a great way to put Freedom up in one chunk 8-)
	[well, with the current design tossout, maybe not, ...]


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