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- From: aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer)
- Subject: Re: Shuttle a research tool (was: Re: Let's be more specific)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.211120.20766@iti.org>
- Organization: Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow
- References: <1993Jan7.033118.1652@cerberus.ulaval.ca> <C0Hun4.13t@zoo.toronto.edu> <1993Jan7.195658.8028@cerberus.ulaval.ca>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 21:11:20 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan7.195658.8028@cerberus.ulaval.ca> yergeau@phy.ulaval.ca (Francois Yergeau) writes:
-
- >NASA could consider leasing shuttle services if a provider were available;
-
- Providers are available. NASA has turned them down.
-
- >but there's none, and with orbiters at $1.5 billion a pop,
- >plus gigadollar infrastructure,
-
- 1. Don't compare govenrment costs with private ones. The private ones
- will be far lower.
- 2. Getting money isn't a problem if the market is there.
-
- >air. With shuttle costs at their astronomical levels (even if reduced
- >30% by private industry's magic wand), NASA would likely be the major,
- >if not only, customer.
-
- They sell the services to NASA. So what?
-
- >A would-be shuttle service provider would want
- >a multi-year commitment for a fairly large number of launches before
- >investing,
-
- Like what DoD did with Titan IV or NASA did to build Shuttle in the
- first place. Not a problem, it happens all the time.
-
- >today is that either i) NASA flies the shuttles, or ii) they stay on
- >the ground.
-
- Since NASA has explicitly refused to even think about proposals, this
- statement cannot be considered accurate.
-
- Allen
-
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