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Article #8171Re: space news from Aug 15 AW&ST
From: Brian McElhinney
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1988 16:47
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1988 16:47
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henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: > No attempt would be made to recover Shuttle-C's SSMEs; they would be > SSMEs that are near the end of their rated lives as shuttle engines. > NASA is no longer hoping for more than about 10 flights per SSME, and > this will create a substantial pool of "retired" engines by the early > 1990s. So SSMEs do not last forever. :-) Some questions: 1) How much does a single SSME cost? They can't be cheap! 2) What was the intended number of flights per SSME? 3) Does NASA's latest budget include the costs of a new SSME every ten flights? Brian McElhinney mce@tc.fluke.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!fluke!mce From: mce@tc.fluke.COM (Brian McElhinney) Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: space news from Aug 15 AW&ST Message-ID: <5163@fluke.COM> Date: 13 Sep 88 16:47:57 GMT References: <1988Sep12.032459.25617@utzoo.uucp> Sender: news@tc.fluke.COM Organization: SRS Recursive Software, Castrovalva, WA Lines: 17