Re: heavy launchers

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Wed, 17 May 1989 17:21

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In article <11483@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> jmckerna@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John McKernan) writes:
>2. While congress refused to fund a true Saturn production line, it was 
>   certainly possible for congress to restart Saturn production when post
>   Apollo launchers were being considered.

In theory.  In practice, the costs of the restart rise steadily with the
length of the shutdown... especially when the shutdown decision was not
"stop production for now" but "there will be no further production".
-- 
Subversion, n:  a superset     |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
of a subset.    --J.J. Horning | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu

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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: heavy launchers
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