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From: JOSH@YKTVMH.BITNET ("Josh Knight")
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Cost of New Orbiter
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Date: Mon, 3-Feb-86 08:26:40 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb  3 08:26:40 1986
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Article in today's NY Times said that a new orbiter would cost
$2 billion and take a year to complete.  Mentioned "spare parts".
This was a continuation of a page 1 article to page A12.  All
the noise about one of the SRB's being the cause seems to rest
on new pictures and a 4% thrust drop 13.5 seconds before the
explosion.  There is a lot of written about what the abort
possibilities would have been had the orbiter been separated
from the SRB's and main tank before the explosion.

			Josh Knight
			IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
josh@yktvmh.BITNET,  josh.yktvmh@ibm-sj.arpa