Briefs: A report from Michoud; John Shannon on Shuttle extension
What impressed me the most, however, was that for the first time in twelve-plus years, I saw areas of the factory with the lights turned off.===
What this suggests is that there isn’t any hardware work going on to extend the Shuttle program beyond the number of tanks currently on-hand or in final assembly.
Spaceports blog points to this video of Shuttle program manager John Shannon discussing the issue of extending the Shuttle program:
Posted 03/16/10 | 00:40:15 by TopSpacer | Filed under: Space Shuttle
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