From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Mon Feb 03 2003 - 07:40:35 MST
On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, John K Clark wrote:
> [snip] It's not science but
> nothing really wrong with any of those things except it cost about a
> billion dollars a flight.
The costs I've seen for shuttle missions are ~$400-500M/flight.
Here is an interesting set of data that shows the Shuttle in not
such a bad light (in terms of cost/man-hour in space):
http://www.abo.fi/~mlindroo/spacemarkets/sld005.htm
The problem is that we have been stuck where we are now for ~20 years.
Robert
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