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Date: Mon, 19 Nov 1990 02:25:50 -0500 (EST)
Subject: SPACE Digest V12 #576

SPACE Digest                                     Volume 12 : Issue 576

Today's Topics:
			 Re: Pity the Shuttle

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Date: Mon, 19 Nov 1990 01:53-EST
From: Barak.Pearlmutter@F.GP.CS.CMU.EDU
Subject: Re: Pity the Shuttle

People are claiming that the original design goals of the shuttle can't
have been primarily motivated by military considerations just because
the shuttle has turned out to be overly expensive, difficult to
maintain, too high tech, quite vulnerable, easily defeated with simple
inexpensive countermeasures, and to have long downtimes and no clear
military purpose in the current military environment.

I confess that I do not find this chain of logic exactly compelling.

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