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Appendix F: A Sustained Manned Spaceflight Program
Appendix F: A Sustained Manned Spaceflight Program
Pages 47-48
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In particular, unless the shuttle fleet is maintained during the l990s at approximately the realistic flight rates given in this report, the necessary foundations will not exist for manned Space Stations, SDI in-flight development, testing of tactical intelligence and battle management concepts, clinical research, countermeasure testing related to space adaptation, and development materialsprocessing systems that depend on the space environment. The realistic or sustainable flight rates in this report are based on supply constraints and mission demands for presently committed missions, not those still in conceptual design.
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Those rates would hardly handle the man-critical missions. In anticipation of an uncertain launch future and to protect their missions, mission directors would no longer design shuttle unique payloads and for planning purposes would schedule on ELVs.
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