Re: News - Budget Crunch Delays NASA's Moon Ship


"Rand Simberg" <simberg.interglobal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:46482dfd.1341757535@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 07:35:47 -0600, in a place far, far away, Pat
Flannery <flanner@xxxxxxxxxx> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:



Rand Simberg wrote:
It's not $500M a shot.


It's closer to $700M a shot.

No, it's closer to $150 million a shot.

Rand, you need to be clear about this. It's $150 million to add a flight to
any year that the shuttle program gets its "normal" amount of funding, which
is overhead plus $150 million times the number of "normal" flights in a
year.

However, we're talking about ending the program. If we extend the program
by three months to add that one extra flight, I don't see how you can claim
it would only cost $150 million.

Jeff
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