On 28 Jul 2003 05:56:33 +0200, Anonymous-Remailer@See.Comment.Header
(Fogbottom) wrote:

>While Bush 'punishes' France, Boeing gets 38 orders and Airbus 
>gets 156.
>Boeing has announced that it is going out of the commercial 
>space launch business; it cannot compete with Ariane or Energia.
>American software business is being farmed out to India.
>Meanwhile, American jobless rates are at historic highs.
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>Good going, Dubbyia!

Even the Australians are getting back into the space business.  Theres
at least one sea borne platform launching rockets and Xmas Island is
also gearing up for launches not to mention the old space port of
Womerra gearing back up for limited activity. (Australia was the third
nation on earth to orbit a sattellite)

And the good old ATLAS is now using Russian rocket motors!

THOM
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