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From: rlw@ttardis.UUCP (Ron Wilson)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Fourth Shuttle?
Message-ID: <2393@ttardis.UUCP>
Date: 18 Dec 89 21:47:58 GMT
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In article <10556.886.forumexp@mts.rpi.edu>, Greg_d._Moore@mts.rpi.edu (Commander Krugannal) writes:
>      Gee, we sell a shuttle to Japan and swap their Mir and a few
>   sundry.... nah... they would only copy the shuttle and put us
>   out of business.
> 
>   Greg d. Moore at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
>   Greg_d._Moore@mts.rpi.edu
> 
If we DON'T sell a shuttle to Japan, the Soviets will.

Given the record the Japanise have for improving upon products they copy
from others - I would prefer to get the money money up front rather than
try to second guess what they could do with the Soviet shuttle.

Sad to say: It might cost us less to have the Japanise build the shuttles
for us - unlike US companies, cost and time overruns are the exception
rather than the rule for Japanise companies.