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From: dietz@SLB-DOLL.CSNET (Paul Dietz)
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Subject: Oh My God
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Date: Tue, 28-Jan-86 13:20:08 EST
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What will happen next?  Some predictions:

The shuttle program is in very serious trouble, and stands a good
chance of being transfered to the military or being cancelled entirely.
Work will start immediately on a replacement vehicle, probably a smaller
scramjet-based TAV.  The Europeans will go ahead with Hermes and HOTOL.
The space station will be postponed or suspended pending the development
of a replacement vehicle.  NASA may feel compelled to invest heavily
in space robotics.

NASA will probably survive, unless it comes out that NASA has been
hushing up internal uneasiness about shuttle reliability.  In that case
the civilian space program is very likely dead.

What a nightmare.