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Wow! I guess Mr. Musk & Company may be pushed to the wall. Looks to me
like the big boys have finally woke up, and are spaying there litter
box. The only problem I see with this is, the lack of booster reuse. It
seems that the high flight rate must be the answer to opp. cost. Well I
wish them luck. It is going to be a interesting few years ahead!!

If their capsule holds eight people and there are seven paying passengers at
the Russian's rate of $20 million per person, that's $140 million per
flight. Perhaps Bigelow's space station will allow the visitors to do more
than the limited activities allowed on ISS, so they'll be able to charge a
higher price per flight? I'm guessing one of the points of this agreement
to is to find out how much it's going to cost per flight. If anything, the
results of the study would give the startups a clear price goal for their
launch vehicles.

Jeff
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a
little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor
safety"
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