Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!mcgeer%ucbkim@Berkeley From: mcgeer%ucbkim%Berkeley@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Re: Politics vs. space -- Mondale? Message-ID: <510@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Sat, 28-Jul-84 15:24:48 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.510 Posted: Sat Jul 28 15:24:48 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 31-Jul-84 02:36:09 EDT Lines: 15 From: Rick McGeer (on an h19-u)Does [Mondale] still want to kill the Shuttle program, as it is rumored he did some years ago, or has he come around yet? (Please post short responses; thanks in advance) There was nothing "rumoured" about Mondale's hatred of the Shuttle -- he introduced a bill to kill it every year he was in the Senate. I think that you can expect the space station to be killed if Mondale wins, as well as tax incentives for private development of space. The Shuttle program will almost certainly be left intact, since it's too big a commitment to walk away from. However, I would be extremely surprised if the fifth orbiter is ever built, or any of the heavy-lift vehicles now on the drawing board. Rick.