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Old September 20th 08, 02:35 PM posted to sci.space.shuttle,sci.space.history,sci.space.policy,sci.space.station
Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)
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Default Shuttle program extension?
"Rand Simberg" wrote in message
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On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 22:44:22 GMT, in a place far, far away, Brian
Thorn made the phosphor on my monitor glow
in such a way as to indicate that:

On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:25:02 GMT, h (Rand
Simberg) wrote:


Still not small or cheap. Cheaper than Destiny and Columbus, but
that's damning with faint praise. It will be big job to make an
orbital survival shelter.

Why? Sundancer will be a lot cheaper than Orion/Ares...

I hope so, but I'm not counting unhatched chickens lately. :-)

It has to be, because he doesn't have billions to pay for it. Using
Genesis as a baseline, it will be.

Right. So failure isn't a possibility then. Good to know.

Oh wait, sometimes chickens DO fail to hatch.


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