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In article <1idkmgINNak1@phantom.gatech.edu> matthew@phantom.gatech.edu (Matthew DeLuca) writes:

>>Facilities costs can be paid with the interest on the savings.

>It's statements like this that make me wince when I read your posts. 

>You can't get interest on money just because you don't spend it; 

It's just an expression! All I am saying is that the cost of facilities
is only a few hundred million $$. I realize that nobody is going to
actually collect any interest; I was simply using an expression to show
how small the expense would be compared to the savings.

>Besides, even if we do save all the money you claim, I don't see it being a 
>fair trade for scrapping chunks of the U.S. aerospace industry in favor of 
>the Russian industry.  

Far from scraping, this will SAVE large chunks of US aerospace. The
Russians will get contracts worth maybe $250M per year. In return, the
US commercial launch market will roughly double producing about $1.5
billion in new MLV orders.

More importantly, US space will be working not to maintain an
albatros but to reducing the cost of space access and growing the
space market. We will see a stronger growing space effort to replace
the dying and stagnant one we suffer with today.

      Allen
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