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- From: aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer)
- Subject: Re: DC-Y funding
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.024815.1981@iti.org>
- Organization: Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow
- References: <C0Fq3r.Dyu.1@cs.cmu.edu>
- Distribution: sci
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 02:48:15 GMT
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- In article <C0Fq3r.Dyu.1@cs.cmu.edu> roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov (John Roberts) writes:
-
- >The Shuttle only launches about eight times a year, and represents relatively
- >few subsidized GAS cans, mid-deck experiments, etc. Is the market really
- >*that* small?
-
- In testimony before the House Space Subcommittee, Dennis Dunbar, VP of
- the Space Systems Division at GD said that if Government bought launch
- services in a commercial and competative manner then costs would be
- roughly cut in half.
-
- Yes the market is that small and government policies and systems (like
- Shuttle) are sending prices up and not down.
-
- >(And if these incidental payloads were not subsidized, the market
- >might be even smaller.)
-
- Not so. If NASA implements the voucher system authorized in last years
- authorization bill they could launch more payloads for less cost. There
- is a difference between providing subsidies for a hugely expensive system
- like Shuttle and giving somebody enough money to launch their own payload.
- The latter encourages greater reliance on lower cost systems.
-
-
- Allen
-
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