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From: dsmith@hplabsb.UUCP (David Smith)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Soviet shuttle
Message-ID: <4938@hplabsb.UUCP>
Date: 6 Oct 88 18:17:30 GMT
References: <1988Oct1.224801.11041@utzoo.uucp> <1109@cfa237.cfa250.harvard.edu> <1988Oct5.232401.15176@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
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In article <1988Oct5.232401.15176@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
> Proton is not man-rated, by the way.

Is there anything fundamentally un-man-ratable about it?  Or is it just
that there has been no mission which requires the bother of getting
it man-rated?
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			David Smith
			HP Labs
			dsmith@hplabs.hp.com