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From: manning@arrester.caltech.edu (Evan Marshall Manning)
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Subject: Re: space news from June 11 AW&ST
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awesley@egrunix.UUCP (Tony Wesley) writes:

>Weinstein is correct.  The cost of the B-2 will be about 800 million
>per airplane.  If the full production run is made.

But a full production run will most likely not be made.  I'm betting
no production craft will be made, giving us a divide by zero error
in calculations of unit cost.  Comparable to the cost of a successful
Phobos, I guess ;-)

-- Evan

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