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From: desj@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (David desJardins)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Cost of a new shuttle (actually B-1)
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Date: Tue, 11-Feb-86 21:13:51 EST
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In article <8602111608.AA14971@hermes> dms@MIT-HERMES.ARPA (David M. Siegel)
writes:
>For sake of comparison, the price of a B1 bomber is around 1 billion,
>and the plan is to build 100 of them. How about building 90 B1
>bombers and 5 more shuttles?

   I am getting really sick of people posting numbers to the net which
are off by orders of magnitude.  The estimated cost of each B-1 is more
like $100 million.  Please, the next person who decides to post a letter
saying "we could build a new shuttle for the cost of ...," get your
numbers right.  Thanks.

   -- David desJardins