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From: kendalla@pooter.WV.TEK.COM (Kendall Auel;685-2425;61-028;;pooter)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Shuttle Status for 10/17/89 [Scrub Status] (Forwarded)
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Date: 18 Oct 89 22:07:15 GMT
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In article <19771@ut-emx.UUCP> dbonds@walt.cc.utexas.edu (David Bonds) writes:
>
>From what the "Daily Texas" (local student newspaper at UT), a scrubbed
>launch runs about $625,000, half of which is the cost for the fuel being loaded
>in and out of the tanks.

Not bad!  You could scrub a launch each day for two years and still
be about $50,000,000 under the cost of a single Stealth bomber!!

Kendall Auel   kendalla@pooter.wv.tek.com