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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Cost of a replacement shuttle
Message-ID: <6360@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Feb-86 12:10:51 EST
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Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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> Anyone have any figures on how much it would cost to reopen the
> production line and build several new shuttles? ...

Getting the line going again would probably drop the price per orbiter
to about the $1e9 apiece price that has been cited for the existing ones.
The next major price drop comes at about quantity 10, when it becomes
worthwhile to make more use of volume-production techniques.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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