Re: Apollo 2.0 Concept Unworkable?

On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 02:58:43 GMT, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)"
<mooregr_deleteth1s@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Use Google. Many here have said that building a new orbiter with the
same shape would be about 2 billion dollars.

Use google, but keep in mind those prices were years ago (basically about
the time Endeavour was built in the late 80s)

No, it was 2003.

and assumed the production
line tooling existed. This is no longer true.

The tooling is in storage.

And it assumed a 1980s version of an updated shuttle.

No, Boeing's OV-201 proposal circa 2003, incorporating all of the
upgrades and improvements made to date, and many that were then in
development, such as electric APUs and non-toxic OMS/RCS.

I'm guessing at this point we're easily taknig double the figures you
mention, at least.

According to a report in Space News in mid-2003, in the weeks after
the loss of Columbia, Boeing offered to build a 200-series (OV-20x)
Orbiter, and the cost was said to be around $2B each. The problem that
caused NASA to discount that proposal was that the new Orbiters would
not be compatible with the old ones, so NASA would either have to pay
for double the training and spare parts, or scrap the 100 series.

Brian
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