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Article #571Re: Divert NASA budget to robotics
From: John D Hoford
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 1990 23:37
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 1990 23:37
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In article <9881@pt.cs.cmu.edu> gerry@cive.ri.cmu.edu (Gerry Roston) writes: >Someone said that NASA spends a lot on Robotics. But what is a lot? >We have a large NASA contract, but it is less than $2M/year. The >total NASA budget for Robotics is probably less than $50M/year (does >anyone have the real numbers?) The estimate (and keep in mind that >all NASA estimates always fall FAR short of reality) is $30B. This >is enough funding to sponser all Robotics related work for most of >a century! > But what percent of the "$30B" is going into items related to maned space travel. I would gess a large amount goes into things that are used in maned and unmaned travel. A cost analysis of man v. robot is not this simple. John.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!netnews.upenn.edu!grasp.cis.upenn.edu!hoford From: hoford@grasp.cis.upenn.edu (John D Hoford) Newsgroups: comp.robotics Subject: Re: Divert NASA budget to robotics Message-ID: <27031@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: 12 Jul 90 23:37:32 GMT References: <10518@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <9855@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <6907@eos.UUCP> <1170@idunno.Princeton.EDU> <13982@wpi.wpi.edu> <9881@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Reply-To: hoford@grasp.cis.upenn.edu.UUCP (John D Hoford) Distribution: comp Organization: University of Pennsylvania Lines: 16