On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:56:20 -0500, kevin willoughby
wrote:

Pat Flannery wrote:

NASA says the value of the toolkit is around $100,000 [..]
Pat

Presumably, that's *excluding* the delivery charge...

But what is the recovery cost?

What is the potential "unrecovery" cost? E.g. What if it came back in
a few orbits and threatened to ding up the solar pannel that you just
spent much EVA time servicing?

Alan