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From: ems@amdahl.UUCP (ems)
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Subject: Re: Buy an Orbiter?
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Date: Tue, 4-Feb-86 13:24:23 EST
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Summary: Any legal restrictions on shuttle technology?

In article <1458@bbncc5.UUCP>, mfidelma@bbncc5.UUCP (Miles Fidelman) writes:
> 
> How about either:
> 
> 	- a national lottery 
> 	- a stock corporation - sell shares on the public exchanges, use
> 	  the money to buy a new orbiter - lease the orbiter to paying
> 	  customers on a flight-by-flight basis - the venture might not
> 	  fully recoup its investment, but I'll bet a lot of individuals
> 	  would like to own a piece of a shuttle, and some of the corporations
> 	  and governments that fly satellites would like to put up another
> 	  orbiter (this might also work as a limited partnership - pass back
> 	  the losses, etc.)
> 
> Miles Fidelman (mfidelman@bbncc5.ARPA)

Is there any reason (technical, legal, or otherwise) other than
financial why a private company could not go to Rockwell and order a
shuttle?  Does NASA own the 'copyright'?   I would be willing to buy
stock in a startup company doing space ventures.  Are there any?
-- 
E. Michael Smith  ...!{hplabs,ihnp4,amd,nsc}!amdahl!ems

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