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From: razeh@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Robert A. Zeh)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Fourth Shuttle?
Message-ID: <1549@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Date: 15 Dec 89 00:20:13 GMT
References: <6795@shlump.nac.dec.com> <1989Dec12.022557.6690@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: razeh@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Robert A. Zeh)
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In article <1989Dec12.022557.6690@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
[Question about the fourth orbiter.]

>It's still being built.  The rollout date is something like 1992.  Bear
>in mind that the orbiters are essentially hand-built and the production
>line (insofar as there ever was a production "line") was almost shut
>down, so it's taking a long time.

Does anyone know what they are planning to do with the production line
when they have finished the fourth orbiter? Keep it open for spare
parts? A replacement for the next orbiter loss?  Or is NASA still in
the "we'll never lose another orbiter" mode?

-- 
Robert A. Zeh                
razeh@rodan.acs.syr.edu   |   "Conditioning is an explanation, not an
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