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		_vk_ on Dec 8, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NASA official warns private sector: We’re moving o... Not so. The crossrange capability was driven by the abort scenarios. http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum30/HTML/001340.html http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=4998.0

semi-extrinsic on Dec 8, 2015 [–]

This is where I got the info: http://space.stackexchange.com/a/1400

Your sources seem more credible, but it's (obviously) hard to get concrete facts on military applications of the shuttle.

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