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From: pstinson@pbs.org
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: SSME Cost...
Message-ID: <1990Nov21.120559.10809@pbs.org>
Date: 21 Nov 90 17:05:58 GMT
References: <5759@crash.cts.com>
Organization: PBS:Public Broadcasting Service, Alexandria, VA
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In article <5759@crash.cts.com>, gandalf@pro-canaveral.cts.com (Ken Hollis) writes:
> Greetings and Salutations:
> 
>>From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
>>Subject: Re: SSME's
>>Uh, let us not forget that most of the major "unmanned" rocket motors
>
>>launched manned spacecraft, Delta uses Atlas-derived engines, and the Saturns
>>were man-rated from the start.  None of them had anywhere near the hideous
>>engine cost and complexity problems of the SSMEs.

Actually the engines used by Delta are Thor-derived, not Atlas.