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From: leech@bodie.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech)
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Subject: Re: launch rates
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Date: 25 Sep 90 21:42:27 GMT
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In article <10209.26ff5e6c@pbs.org> pstinson@pbs.org writes:
>You can not argue away the Shuttle's better performance as compared to
>Saturn V by claiming extenuating circumstances.  I made no allowances when I
>compiled the Shuttle launch figures and I see no reason why I should have with
>the Saturn V data.

    If you're trying to evaluate Saturn vs.  Shuttle, do keep in mind
the relative payload capacity far outweighs the relative launch
frequency.
--
    Jon Leech (leech@cs.unc.edu)    __@/
    ``Thus Mathematics helps / our brains and hands and feet
      and can make / a race of supermen out of us.''
	- The Education of T. C. Mits