Aunc.1173 net.columbia utzoo!decvax!duke!unc!smb Tue Sep 22 00:32:39 1981 empty space >From a New York Times News Service article that appeared in the Sunday Raleigh News and Observer: * sources say NASA is asking for $300-$500 million more than the $1.6 billion originally projected for the shuttle for 1983. * since there will be at best a modest increase in the $6 billion budget for 1982, things look bleak. * The Halley's comet mission looks unlikely; the Galileo orbiter of Jupiter may be delayed past 1985 (partly a technical issue -- what upper stage should be used?); only the Large Space Telescope looks safe. * Engineers at the Kennedy Space Center doubt that it will ever be possible to refly a shuttle only two weeks after landing. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.