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- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!rsoft!mindlink!a752
- From: Bruce_Dunn@mindlink.bc.ca (Bruce Dunn)
- Subject: Re: Stupid Shut Cost arguements (was Re: Terminal Velocity
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 00:07:13 GMT
- Message-ID: <19116@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Sender: news@deep.rsoft.bc.ca (Usenet)
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- > Gary Coffman writes:
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- > Shuttle *is* expensive to operate, but it offers capabilities not found on
- > any other current system.
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- The apparent high cost per pound of the Shuttle is largely due to
- people counting as payload only what is in the cargo bay. If you allow that
- the shuttle itself is a payload (in that it acts as a short term orbiting
- workstation for manned spaceflight research), the "cost per pound" drops
- sharply.
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- Bruce Dunn Vancouver, Canada Bruce_Dunn@mindlink.bc.ca
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