Re: Terminal Velocity of DCX? (was Re: Shuttle ...)

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From: Edward V. Wright
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 17:04

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In <BzDKw5.3no@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jbh55289@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Josh 'K' Hopkins) writes:

>HE indulged in creative accounting?  I think the contract for DC-X was $58 
>million, not a "couple hundred million."  

That sounds right.  McDAC has also spent some of its own money in
addition to what it got from the Air Force.  I believe the contract
required McDAC to spend at least an equal amount, so that puts it
into the hundred-million-dollar range.  *Not* the billion-dollar
range.

>The average total cost of a shuttle mission is a little over $500 million 
>not a billion+.

Only if you learned math from the "Hitchhiker's Guide."

Divide the amount of money NASA spends on the Space Shuttle program
every year by six flights per year.

$500 million ain't even close.

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