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From: dlbres10@pc.usl.edu (Fraering Philip)
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Subject: Re: You Can't Expect a Space Station to be Cheap
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Date: 8 Nov 90 17:54:46 GMT
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In article <8580@fmeed1.UUCP> cage@fmeed1.UUCP (Russ Cage) writes:

RC>Show me anything like SSX which has flown even 2 flights, and
RC>come within a factor of 2 of its cost target.

Well, for starters, Max Hunter, SSX's main proponent, says that it is
less complex than a major airliner. _And_ I have read that the same
energy involved in launching something into low orbit is about the same
as sending it to Australia via airplane, due to the fact that the
airplane spends all of its time down in the soup.

Phil