In article fd761866-02bc-4f51-b28b-dec1bdfcd091
@s4g2000yql.googlegroups.com, says...

well someone with more money than brains could offer to pay for
continued shuttle ops using the exsting infrastructure......

thus a private operation is born....

it would take boatloads of money but keep people working.

NASA still would not bite. They have plans for the (soon to be former)
shuttle infrastructure. Commercial shuttle operations would just get in
the way of that.

Jeff
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