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- Path: sparky!uunet!hela.iti.org!aws
- From: aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer)
- Subject: Re: ACRV/Soyuz P # of Passengers
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.193257.4603@iti.org>
- Organization: Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow
- References: <1992Aug17.150641.23766@ke4zv.uucp> <1992Aug18.125111.15553@iti.org> <1992Aug18.180256.11121@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 19:32:57 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug18.180256.11121@eng.umd.edu> sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu writes:
-
- >>Does the word 'comeptition' ring a bell? ...
-
- >Company #2 could not afford to develop the vehicle further.
-
- First of all, both MLV alternatives exist as commercial options today. Of
- the HLVs, the development cost is $500M which can easilly afforded. GD
- spent that much on commercial Atlas and Douglas also spent that much
- on Delta.
-
- If the market is there (and the whole point of this is to make the
- market) they will come.
-
- >Go look at ATF. One
- >winner, one fighter. One winner, one launch system.
-
- You still don't get it. ATF is where the government says they will
- buy one fighter and only one. With expendable Freedom resuply the
- government doesn't own anything; it just buys services.
-
- Indeed, ATF just proves my point. Both teams invested twice the money
- needed to develop the HLV with only a 50-50 chance of winning. For resuply,
- they only need half the money they needed for ATF and at the same time
- BOTH companies can make a profit.
-
- Allen
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