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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!BrianT
  2. From: BrianT@cup.portal.com (Brian Stuart Thorn)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.space
  4. Subject: Re: Terminal Velocity of DCX? (was Re: Shuttle ...)
  5. Message-ID: <72234@cup.portal.com>
  6. Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 18:47:05 PST
  7. Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  8. References: <ewright.724533084@convex.convex.com>
  9.   <BzDKw5.3no@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <ewright.724698268@convex.convex.com>
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  13. >In article <ewright.724698268@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V.
  14. >Wright) writes:
  15. >>
  16. >>>The average total cost of a shuttle mission is a little over $500 million
  17. >>>not a billion+.
  18. >>
  19. >>Only if you learned math from the "Hitchhiker's Guide."
  20. >>
  21. >        Do you think it is possible for you to reply to a person's posting
  22. >without being insulting or condescending?
  23. >
  24. >>Divide the amount of money NASA spends on the Space Shuttle program
  25. >>every year by six flights per year.
  26. >>
  27. >        Right, except last year they fley 8 times.  This year they
  28. >have 7 planned.
  29. >
  30.          Eight.
  31.          STS-54 (TDRS-F, Jan), STS-55 (Spacelab D2, Feb),
  32.          STS-56 (ATLAS-2, Mar), STS-57 (EURECA, Apr)
  33.          STS-51 (ACTS, Jul), STS-58 (SLS-2, Aug)
  34.          STS-60 (WSF, Nov), STS-61 (HST REPAIR, Dec)
  35.          
  36.          -Brian         
  37.  
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  39. Brian S. Thorn                                    "If ignorance is bliss,
  40. BrianT@cup.portal.com                               this must be heaven."
  41.                                                 -Diane Chambers, "Cheers"
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