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- From: aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer)
- Subject: Re: Terminal Velocity of DCX? (was Re: Shuttle ...)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.160715.28828@iti.org>
- Organization: Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow
- References: <1992Dec16.102412.27942@ke4zv.uucp> <ewright.724533084@convex.convex.com> <71877@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 16:07:15 GMT
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- In article <71877@cup.portal.com> BrianT@cup.portal.com (Brian Stuart Thorn) writes:
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- >>NASA spends over a billion dollars on each Space Shuttle flight. I think
- >>you've indulged in some creative accounting.
-
- > The Space Transportation budget this year was about $5 billion, if
- > memory serves. NASA flew 8 Shuttle missions this year.
-
- This number does not include NASA overhead, amortization of the orbiter,
- amortization of Shuttle development costs, and a host of other costs. Adding
- those in puts the cost at well over a billion per flight. Hell, interest
- costs on development alone adds over a quarter billion per flight (BTW,
- this interest is not a sunk cost since it is part of the national debt and
- we are paying for it even now).
-
- >You have done the 'creative accounting' here, I'd say.
-
- No, it's NASA who is being creative by ignoring billions in cost. BTW,
- if a private company ran their books the way NASA does they would be
- thrown in jail for fraud.
-
- Allen
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