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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: relative launch economics
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Date: Thu, 2-Jan-86 14:16:57 EST
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> ...The Shuttle costs $1000/lb less to operate than Saturn...

Don't forget that Saturn was operated as a "fifteen shots and that's it"
operation, since volume production was cancelled quite early, whereas the
shuttle is a continuing system.  One would expect that an ongoing Saturn
operation would have been cheaper than the Apollo prices (although it's
hard to say by how much).
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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