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In article <BxxDL7.9Ly@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:

>>The US shouldn't be putting it's money into the design of ANY expendable
>>launcher. We have done that for too long and it's hasn't reduced launch
>>costs by a dime.

>Actually, this isn't a very sound argument.... [Henry goes on to say
>that it hasn't been tried and examples from China and Russia show it
>CAN be a lot cheaper]

Allow me to rephrase: NASA has shown that it cannot execute large multi-year
multi-billion $$ projects in a cost effective manner. Some blame for this
goes to Congress, and some to NASA. Asking them to do it again will simply
waste more money and delay the creation of a spacefaring civilization.

I don't doubt that much cheaper expendables CAN be build (Zenith Star
launchers for example cut costs in half). I simply don't believe that the US
government can build them.

   Allen
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