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From: rogers@wlf.isi.edu (Craig Milo Rogers)
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Subject: Re: Fourth Shuttle?
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Date: 15 Dec 89 19:43:29 GMT
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In article <1549@rodan.acs.syr.edu> razeh@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Robert A. Zeh) writes:
>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?

	According to an item on page D2 of the Friday 15 Dec 89 issue
of the Los Angeles Times, Rockwell Int'l and NASA have completed
negotiations on a $375 million agreement to build a new set of
structural spare components.  The work is to be completed by June,
1994.

					Craig Milo Rogers