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From: aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer)
Subject: Re: After Endeavour, what then?
Message-ID: <1991May6.170018.5455@iti.org>
Organization: Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow
References: <346.281f448d@mwk.uucp>
Date: Mon, 6 May 1991 17:00:18 GMT

In article <346.281f448d@mwk.uucp> pittman@mwk.uucp writes:
>Is Endeavour (OV-105) the absolutely last shuttle to be built?  

With luck, yes.

>Everything
>I hear seems to indicate that, yet common sense tells me that with Freedom
>going up over the next decade, the current shuttle fleet may be too old to
>service it.  

Freedom can be serviced for a tenth the cost using expendables. With
no more new shuttles, NASA will need to use them. The taxpayers will
save billions if they do.

>Pardon my naivete, but what is the design lifetime of a shuttle orbiter?

I think it is 100 flights.

   Allen
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