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From: steve@umigw.MIAMI.EDU (steve emmerson)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: would a private shuttle be licenced
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Date: 15 Apr 89 17:20:00 GMT
References: <1989Apr14.212447.4524@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: steve@umigw.miami.edu (steve emmerson)
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Thank you for responding.

In article <1989Apr14.212447.4524@utzoo.uucp> (Henry Spencer) writes:

>I'd guess that certification as an experimental vehicle should not be
>a problem.

Hmmm.   How confident are you in your guess.

I suspect that a private enterprise shuttle would not be licenced 
because the common consent necessary to by-pass licencensing would 
only be engendered for a federal project.

Assuming it wouldn't be licensed, I wonder what a private, manned 
program would look like.  Indeed, I wonder if one would even exist 
(but I digress, please excuse me).
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