On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 15:47:52 +0100, in a place far, far away, "Paul
Blay" made the phosphor on my monitor glow
in such a way as to indicate that:

"Brett Buck" wrote ...
Both will almost certainly survive to provide redundant access for
military payloads. Commercial viability was/is essentially moot - they
are required national resources.

There's been talk about how 'required' that required access is.

It puts Boeing in an interesting position though. Suppose they say
"We're not interested in doing Delta IV anymore, it doesn't pay." to the
US Gov. is the government going to have to come back with Big Money(TM)
to tempt them?

I think that they were making exactly that threat to avoid getting
slapped over the corporate espionage, but the Air Force called their
bluff.

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