Aalice.167 net.columbia utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!houxf!harpo!research!alice!sjb Wed Nov 18 07:30:55 1981 shuttle buyers/news conference Officials of the Space Transportation Co. of Princeton, NJ, have gone to the Reagan administration and asked permission to buy a fifth space shuttle, who services would be leased to NASA. Government officials would not comment except to confirm that discussions have taken place. ------------------------ NASA has rescheduled Engle's and Truly's news conference to 30 November. It will start at 1100 EST. On the agenda will probably be the announcement of the crew for STS-3. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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.