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From: pezely@udel.EDU (Dan Pezely)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Does this proprosal make sense ? (was RE: SPACE QUEST)
Message-ID: <20263@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: 23 Jul 89 00:54:45 GMT
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Reply-To: pezely@udel.EDU (Daniel Pezely)
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In article <1989Jul22.232038.24123@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>One trouble is that the aerospace contractors, by and large, do not have
>off-the-shelf components.  They custom-build everything.  The word "cheap"
>simply is not in their vocabulary.

Even if the contractors don't have "off-the-shelf" components, those
contractors will certainly produce and sell the parts with a lower
price tag to a subsidiary than they would to NASA.  After all, NASA will
pay what the contractors think they can get away with.

- Daniel