[net.columbia] Military in Space

sjb (06/01/82)

NASA and the Pentagon are working on plans for each to operate
its own space shuttles.  At present, four are planned (one
completed, one very near to completion, one being constructed,
and one's parts being scrounged) with an option for a fifth
existing.  Congress has said that the Pentagon and DoD are
not paying their fair share in the development of the shuttle.
In the $15 billion projected cost of producing the four space
shuttles, the Pentagon will only pay $3.4 billion; this money
will also go to making a space station at Vandenburg AFB and
securing the facilities at KSC and Houston.