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From: weemba@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Matthew P. Wiener)
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Subject: Re: Cost of a new shuttle (actually B-1)
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Date: Tue, 11-Feb-86 22:45:13 EST
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In article <11815@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> desj@brahms.UUCP (David desJardins) writes:
>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.

Yes, but what is the *actual* cost?  Much more than $100 million, I'm sure!

ucbvax!brahms!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720