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>In article <136@enuxha.eas.asu.edu> kluksdah@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Norman C. Kluksdahl) writes:
>Why the *(&) did we throw away Saturn V????

The Saturn V was thrown away for the same reason that the ISF was
shunned.  It was the only way to protect a big, new project from a
comparison it could not withstand--the Space Shuttle compared with the
Saturn V, or the Space Station compared with ISF.  

The Saturn V was thrown away during James Fletcher's first stint as NASA
administrator.

The arguments made in favor of the Space Shuttle at the end of the
Apollo project are the same as those put forward now in support of NASP,
only more extreme.  The Shuttle was to use normal runways and air
traffic control, be fully reusable, cost $50 per pound to orbit
initially, dropping to $10 per pound with repeated use.  It was to push
the development of new technology in every related area.  All this with
an estimated development cost of $5 billion.

Believe it, or not.

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William Baxter

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