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Space/Science » in reply to re: Controversey & Diminished Orion Capabilities

Westar 6 Palapa B2

The Discovery flight of november 1984 was extremely exciting...Allen and Gardner recovered 2 ailing satellites (launched from Challenger months earlier)....they were slightly fixed and returned to space with chinese rockets and cost a fraction of what they were...But the Shuttle flight itself was extremely costly....Perhaps not servicing anymore is a sign of what space is about and we don't accept it.
It is indeed far cheaper to build a replacement satellite!

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