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From: paulf@Jessica.stanford.edu (Paul Flaherty)
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Subject: Re: Inertial Upper Stage
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Date: 4 May 89 19:53:43 GMT
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In article <1989May4.155418.21073@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>The Tug was
>one of the things that died, to save money, very early in the shuttle
>program.
>-- 
>Mars in 1980s:  USSR, 2 tries, |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
>2 failures; USA, 0 tries.      | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu

Actually, it was reincarnated as the OMV, which is only useful for LEO
type payloads.  Since they're planning on using the OMV with HST, it 
should show its face Real Soon Now...

-=Paul Flaherty, N9FZX      | "Research Scientists need Porsches, too!"
->paulf@shasta.Stanford.EDU |			-- Bloom County