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Re:NASA official warns private sector: We’re moving on from ... by _vk_ on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @10:40AM (#10696971)
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

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Re:NASA official warns private sector: We’re moving on from ... by semi-extrinsic on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @01:44PM (#10698410)
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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