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From: maw@cbnewsh.att.com (michael.a.weinstein)
Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: space news from June 11 AW&ST
Message-ID: <1990Jul24.183248.16311@cbnewsh.att.com>
Date: 24 Jul 90 18:32:48 GMT
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From article <1990Jul23.045611.8147@zoo.toronto.edu>, by henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer):
> 
> Total Voyager pricetag so far, including launches, is $865M.  Another $30M
> has been budgeted, so far, for post-Neptune monitoring and control.
> 
About the price for a single B2 bomber (this is so mind boggling that I 
had to run to the library to verify it).  Wouldn't it be great to trade 
a bomber for a top notch space probe like Voyager?  Maybe someday we'll
get our priorities straight.

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