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- From: roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov (John Roberts)
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- Subject: Re: Shuttle costs vs DC costs
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- Date: 29 Dec 92 04:03:37 GMT
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- -From: aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer)
- -Subject: Re: Stupid Shut Cost arguements (was Re: Terminal Velocity
- -Date: 28 Dec 92 15:46:24 GMT
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- -In article <72482@cup.portal.com> BrianT@cup.portal.com (Brian Stuart Thorn) writes:
- -> You seem to have two sets of measuring systems at work. One which you
- -> use for DC, Titan, Delta et al, and one which you use for Shuttle.
-
- -I disagree; I feel I am working very hard to account for both the same
- -way.
-
- -However, if you disagree, please post your own numbers. State the rules
- -you want to use and apply to both systems fairly. Then show that Shuttle
- -is better.
-
- I tend to agree with you, but you keep factoring initial development cost
- into cost of using the Shuttle. While that may be interesting in itself,
- it's not really relevant to the question of whether DC should be developed.
- The cost of developing DC *is* relevant.
-
- As I said before, it's not a "level playing field", but that's the goal DC
- has to meet - development costs plus operational costs of DC, versus just
- the operational costs (including any *future* development costs) of the
- Shuttle.
-
- If it wasn't felt that this is possible, nobody would be working on DC.
-
- John Roberts
- roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov
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