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From: jlg@lanl.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Re: Shuttle Articles in Discover Magazine
Message-ID: <34420@lanl.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 6-Dec-85 21:15:46 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  6 21:15:46 1985
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Reply-To: jlg@a.UUCP (Jim Giles)
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I don't understand this line of controversy.  I though the shuttle WAS
cheaper per pound than saturn Vs and the like.  Oh, the actual dollar
amount might be the same - or even more - but inflation has reduced
the value of the dollar by more than A FACTOR OF TWO since the last
Apollo mission.  Is the $/lb. figure for the shuttle really that much?
Maybe I should get a back issue of Discover to figure out what started
this discussion in the first place.

J. Giles
Los Alamos