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From: gordon@prls.UUCP (Gordon Vickers)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Hubble Space Telescope
Message-ID: <23717@prls.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jul 89 16:05:23 GMT
References: <351@aeras.UUCP> <2983@helios.ee.lbl.gov> <23692@prls.UUCP> <211@larry.sal.wisc.edu> <2998@helios.ee.lbl.gov>
Reply-To: gordon@prls.UUCP (Gordon Vickers)
Organization: Philips Research Labs, Sunnyvale, California
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In article <2998@helios.ee.lbl.gov> envbvs@epb2 (Brian V. Smith) writes:
->According to several sources, the cost of storing the HST until 
->it can be launched is around $10 million PER MONTH.  It has been
->waiting since about 1985 or so to go up, so this amounts to 
->several hundred million dollars!
->
->Can anyone enlighten me as to why it costs so much just to STORE it?

     Prehaps this includes the cost of the many, many employees who
   are out here on per-deim.  I know one gentalmen who has been out
   here from Colorado on per-deim for nearly four years!  Since he is
   a manager, he must also fly back once in a while. I would suppose
   all this gets changed against the HST project, and prehaps considered
   as storage cost.

Another wild speculation from:
Gordon Vickers 408/991-5370 (Sunnyvale,Ca); {mips|pyramid|philabs}!prls!gordon
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