Asri-unix.732 net.space utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ARPAVAX:C70:sri-unix!MPH@MIT-XX Tue Feb 9 07:01:37 1982 possible private funding for Shuttle #5 The February 12 issue of Science magazine states that the Space Transportation Company, a group of investment bankers and venture capitalists, is considering funding the fifth Shuttle. STC is considering raising one billion dollars privately, and then turning the shuttle over to NASA (or whomever is operating shuttles in 1986), in return for which STC would become the sole ticketing and marketing agent for all commercial and foreign users of the STS. ------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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.