[geeks] Crap! Not again...

[Lionel Peterson]

--- Geoff Reed <geoffr at zipcon.net> wrote:

>   The current shuttles are all > 20 years old and have seen a lot of
> usage, they need to build new ones, using updated technology....

They were designed for 100 missions, this one was only up to #28, and
it is (essentially) rebuilt after every 4-5 missions, as I understand
it (from recent CNN blather)...

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Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976
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