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- From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
- Subject: Re: Stupid Shut Cost arguements (was Re: Terminal Velocity
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:32:24 GMT
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- In <1993Jan06.171601.10077@eng.umd.edu> sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu (Doug Mohney) writes:
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- >It's time for the periodic reality check:
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- > A) Alan will fight for Freedom and favor it over renting space
- > on Mir, yet Freedom has yet to be launched. Mir Exists.
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- > B) Alan will fight to shut down the 4 Shuttles, a multibillion
- > dollar program ) and replace them with a
- > Soyuz sitting on a U.S. booster. Which hasn't been launched, but
- > with a few hand-waving tricks, manages to respark the whole
- > U.S. aerospace industry.
-
- >What is wrong with this picture?
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-
- Actually, there's a certain logic to that. As long as NASA continues
- to operate the Shuttle as a "national space transportation system,"
- it will continue to wage guerilla warfare against anyone else who seeks
- to get into the launch business.
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- On the other hand, there is no space-station business, so Freedom
- doesn't compete with anybody yet. And although Freedom will cost
- ten times what it should, it will return some benefits. And if
- NASA focuses its attention on Freedom, it will have less time to
- spend defending its sacred cow, the Shuttle, against potential
- competition.
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- You may agree or disagree with these reasons, but there's nothing
- inconsistent.
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