Re: How come this hasn't hit the NG yet?



Tim K. wrote:

> There's scuttle*** going about as few as 16 - but then it ranges from we'll
> miss the July window and never launch again to Sept. to mothballing Pad A
> (which seems odd with all the work going on there now) to 26 flights.

Does the low-number scenario still keep STS flying through 2010,
just at a reduced average flight rate? Or does the program get
shut down early?

Any guesses about the budgetary implications of those two
possibilities?

Flying through 2010 would free up the marginal costs of the unflown
missions, shutting down earlier would add the yearly fixed costs, no?

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