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From: pflueger@thewav.enet.dec.com (Free speech is a sound investment)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Fourth Shuttle?
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Date: 21 Dec 89 02:53:57 GMT
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In article <2393@ttardis.UUCP>, rlw@ttardis.UUCP (Ron Wilson) writes...
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>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.

Hmm, I kinda like that ideal.  Why don't we let the Japanese build a heavy
lift boost - ala Saturn-V, then we can get down to business!

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