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From: petej@phred.UUCP (Peter Jarvis)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: New (!?!?!?!) Shuttle Computers
Message-ID: <3356@phred.UUCP>
Date: 18 Mar 91 15:14:13 GMT
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References: <1991Mar7.142311.10412@vaxa.strath.ac.uk> <6963@mace.cc.purdue.edu> <1991Mar11.201910.8476@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> <1991Mar12.003321.13988@zoo.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: petej@phred.UUCP (Peter Jarvis)
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In article <1991Mar12.003321.13988@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>
> There is enormous pressure to use off-the-shelf
>technology even when new technology would greatly benefit the mission.
>This is why the unmanned missions are still using 1965-vintage propulsion
>systems. 
>

Note the relatively new Boeing IUS. (The first one failed, but they're
working fine now). 

Peter Jarvis...........