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- From: shafer@rigel.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer)
- Subject: Re: Terminal Velocity of DCX? (was Re: Shuttle ...)
- In-Reply-To: aws@iti.org's message of Tue, 22 Dec 1992 16:07:15 GMT
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:51:41 GMT
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- On Tue, 22 Dec 1992 16:07:15 GMT, aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer) said:
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- AS> 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.
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- > The Space Transportation budget this year was about $5 billion, if
- > memory serves. NASA flew 8 Shuttle missions this year.
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- AS> This number does not include NASA overhead, amortization of the orbiter,
- AS> amortization of Shuttle development costs, and a host of other costs. Adding
- AS> those in puts the cost at well over a billion per flight. Hell, interest
- AS> costs on development alone adds over a quarter billion per flight (BTW,
- AS> this interest is not a sunk cost since it is part of the national debt and
- AS> we are paying for it even now).
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- >You have done the 'creative accounting' here, I'd say.
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- AS> No, it's NASA who is being creative by ignoring billions in cost. BTW,
- AS> if a private company ran their books the way NASA does they would be
- AS> thrown in jail for fraud.
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- Like Air France and British Airways? Writing off the development
- costs of the Concorde so that they could show a profit?
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- --
- Mary Shafer DoD #0362 KotFR NASA Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, CA
- shafer@rigel.dfrf.nasa.gov Of course I don't speak for NASA
- "A MiG at your six is better than no MiG at all." Unknown US fighter pilot
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