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From: smfedor@solar.lerc.nasa.gov (Gregory Fedor)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: After Endeavour, what then?
Message-ID: <1991May8.144502.8308@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
Date: 8 May 91 14:45:02 GMT
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In article <1991May7.173026.5258@iti.org> aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer) writes:
>In article <1991May07.054232.19990@disk.uucp> joefish@disk.uucp (joefish) writes:
>
>>>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.
>
>>There are other things than fred to think about.   I think it would be
>>useful to build another shuttle, but without wings, without heat tiles,
>>without rudder, and without landing gear, and use it to go to geo orbit
>>and remove nonworking satellites, and bring them down to LEO and put
>>them in a shuttle that can land them.
>
>This sounds sort of like Shuttle-C although I doubt very much it could
>to to GEO.

Actually, it sounds more like the OMV (Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle?) that
MSFC (Marshall Space Flight Center) was working on before it was axed by
congress in a budget cut.

Well, now that I think about it, what joefish described wouldn't resemble
the OMV, but functionally they'd accomplish the same things.  I don't
remember too much about the OMV.  Perhaps someone from MSFC could fill in
the details.

Too bad congress nixed it.  It sounded like a good idea that _would_ work.

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