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From: alastair@geovision.uucp (Alastair Mayer)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Commercial Space Launch Act of 1988
Keywords: Space Commerce
Message-ID: <540@geovision.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jan 89 16:05:31 GMT
References: <672@ablnc.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: alastair@geovision.UUCP (Alastair Mayer)
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In article <672@ablnc.ATT.COM> rcpilz@ablnc.ATT.COM (Robert C. Pilz) writes:
[...]
>What he meant by that is that the big 3 (McDonnell Douglas Corp.,
>General Dynamics Corp., and (Orlando's) Martin Marietta have increased
                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>the number of commercial payload contracts from 2 in 1987 to the

Actually, Martin-Marietta Orlando is involved with electronics/control
systems (I think). The (Titan) launchers are made in Denver.  (Martin also
makes the Shuttle ETs, at Michoud).
-- 
"The problem is not that spaceflight is expensive,  | Alastair J.W. Mayer
therefore only the government can do it, but that   | alastair@geovision.UUCP
only the government is doing spaceflight, therefore | al@BIX
it is expensive."                                   |