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SPACE Digest                                      Volume 2 : Issue 42

Today's Topics:
			 Re:  SPACE Digest V2 #40
			 COST OF SHUTTLE FLIGHTS
		    Please add me to the Mailing list
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Date: 25 Nov 1981 11:45:49-PST
From: decvax!duke!unc!bch at Berkeley
To: decvax!duke!unc!space@Berkeley
Subject: Re:  SPACE Digest V2 #40

Murphy lives!

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Date: 25 Nov 1981 1238-PST
From: Terry C. Savage <TCS at USC-ECL>
Subject: COST OF SHUTTLE FLIGHTS
To: SPACE at MIT-MC
cc: tcs at USC-ECL

The most recent number I have heard for the marginal cost of a shuttle
flight is $50M, but I don't think this includes an adequate allowance for
the ground support. To round up for inflation, and to be generally
conservative, assume that the actual marginal cost to a private user would
be about $80M.

I have seen first cut designs for a passenger module for the shuttle that
would pack about 60 people in like sardines. In addition to being
technically doubtful, that kind of arrangement would significantly reduce
the market for some kinds of travel (vacation in particular). If you allow
a reasonable amount of room for support equipment, a bar, and the like, a
passenger capacity of 20 is probably believable, which would yield a per
person cost of #$2M.

This, of course, doesn't take into account the purchase of the passenger
module, much less it's development cost. I guess my vacation in space will
just have to wait a few years.

TCS

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From: DIGEX@MIT-AI
Date: 11/26/81 00:22:16
Subject: Please add me to the Mailing list

DIGEX@MIT-AI 11/26/81 00:22:16 Re: Please add me to the Mailing list
To: Space-Enthusiasts at MIT-MC
CC: DIGEX at MIT-AI
Please add me to the mailing list.

Thanks,
Doug

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