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From: raha@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Bob Hettinga)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Re: Support for Shuttle
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Date: Sat, 8-Feb-86 02:58:25 EST
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>> Last night I saw Mr.  Rockwell (the guy who founded the firm of the same
>> name, but who now has a new aerospace company) at a news conference offer
>> to build a new shuttle [which would] then be "leased" to NASA, on a
>> lease-to-buy scheme. (IE Rockwell's company makes back its bucks, NASA
>> gets to keep the orbiter in the end.)
>>
>> Note, these are my recollections of a 60-second blurb on CNN, and might not
>> be completely correct.

>That was General Space Corp., a subsidiary of Astrotech International
>Corp; the price of the new shuttle was $1.2 billion, though they didn't
>specify what the fee for leasing it would be.

Willard Rockwell has more lives than a cat.  Astrotech has been flirting
with bankruptcy so many times (I have have a stack of Wall Street Journal
clippings about yea high...) it's nothing short of amazing.  Rockwell seems
to think can run a startup with the same unlimited funds mentality a
conglomerate like North American Rockwell uses.

Oh, well.  He's still out there, anyway.

-rah

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Bob Hettinga (Chairman, CEO, Virtual Vaccuum Ventures, Inc. ( V3I ) ) 

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