Arguments for keeping shuttle around longer

Brian Thorn wrote in
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On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 11:12:21 -0400, Michael Gallagher
wrote:

Yeah, I was thinking of those two satellites we recovered back in the
'80s. Except for the long duration exposure facility, we haven't done
any satellite recovery (I don't think, but I know I could be wrong).

The latter. Japan's Space Flyer Unit (SFU) was retrieved by STS-72 in
1996.

And about twenty others, which I listed in a thread in sci.space.shuttle.

(Hint: It still counts if they were deployed by the shuttle, even on the
same flight.)


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