From: henry@spsystems.net   
      
   In article <608f32e3.0406240844.353a0309@posting.google.com>,   
   louis  wrote:   
   >Can the space shuttle be converted to a comercial suborbital plane?   
   >It would be carried aloft by a 747 and released high up like the white   
   >knight and the spaceshipone.  The shuttle would use fuel stored in the   
   >cargo bay and carry passengers.  London to Tokyo in 1 hour!   
      
   The idea is not ridiculous... provided you don't start with the shuttle.   
   It's totally unsuited to doing this, in any number of ways.  (Starting   
   with the fact that no commercial operator could possibly afford the army   
   of people who maintain it.)   
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