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Subject: Shuttle replacements - using spare parts
Message-ID: <238@hadron.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Feb-86 10:40:42 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  5 10:40:42 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 9-Feb-86 06:43:46 EST
Organization: Hadron, Inc., Fairfax, VA
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In the February 3 1986 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology (page
29), thre is an article entitled "Some Major Structural Components for
Fifth Orbiter Are Available".  It seems that "major structural
assemblies necessary to produce a fifth (replacement - klr) shuttle are
under construction or already ahve been completed and shipped to
Rockwell International for storage at their shuttle assembly facility
in Palmdale, Ca."

These spares are a part of a $110-million spares program that was part
of the 1984 budget.  An addition $40-million was approved by congress
in 1984, and then canceled last summer.

However, "even with the large spare spacecraft elements, production of
the necessary hardware and construction of a new orbiter would take
several years, an estimated total investment of $1.5-billion and a
substantial effort to reassemble a shuttle assembly workforce."