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From: montague@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Michael Montague)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Food for thought
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Date: 11 Apr 88 18:20:49 GMT
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> If we had spent the same amount of money on space hardware, we could
> have bought 24 more Apollo Moon shots, PLUS 6 more Shuttle Orbiters.

Sure, and if we were willing to accept more risk of failure and loss of
human life, instead of trying to make everything failure-safe we could
have that for the same amount of money we spend now. :-)

Michael.

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