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From: mce@tc.fluke.COM (Brian McElhinney)
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Subject: Re: space news from Aug 15 AW&ST
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henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
> No attempt would be made to recover Shuttle-C's SSMEs; they would be
> SSMEs that are near the end of their rated lives as shuttle engines.
> NASA is no longer hoping for more than about 10 flights per SSME, and
> this will create a substantial pool of "retired" engines by the early
> 1990s.

So SSMEs do not last forever.  :-)  Some questions:
	1) How much does a single SSME cost?  They can't be cheap!
	2) What was the intended number of flights per SSME?
	3) Does NASA's latest budget include the costs of a new SSME
	   every ten flights?



Brian McElhinney
mce@tc.fluke.com