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

On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 17:25:20 GMT, in a place far, far away, "Greg D.
Moore \(Strider\)" <mooregr_deleteth1s@xxxxxxxxxxx> made the phosphor
on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

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.

Yes, then the cost would be a quarter of the annual funding, or around
a billion or so. My point is that there's really no such thing as a
"cost per shot" for the Shuttle. It depends.


Ah, I see, it's your inability to read from context screwing you up. Since
it was clear the original poster was talking aboute extending the program a
few years, the incremental costs clearly don't apply.

Neither do either of the other two numbers.
.

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