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From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: launch rates
Message-ID: <15882@bfmny0.BFM.COM>
Date: 25 Sep 90 01:00:36 GMT
References: <10195.26fde341@pbs.org> <1990Sep25.033816.16652@zoo.toronto.edu> <10208.26ff55cf@pbs.org>
Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
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In article <10208.26ff55cf@pbs.org> pstinson@pbs.org writes:
>So.  Add one more launch in 1969.  The average launch rate changes as a result
>only from 1.71 to 1.85 and the basic conclusion of the comnparison remains the
>same.  Shuttle is beating the pants off the old Saturn V launch rate.  That's a
>fact.

However, I think the yearly average MOON LANDING rate was somewhat
higher then, nicht wahr?  Get real!  If all Apollo had to do was go to
LEO every time I'm sure they could have ramped it up past 1.85.  The
Shuttle is not Apollo: it is Gemini with an attitude problem.  :-)

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