Pat Flannery wrote:



Hop David wrote:


Bigelow Aerospace hopes to rent their habs at these rates:
4 weeks $15 million
8 weeks $18 million
1 year $88 million
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigelow_Aerospace


And we hoped to launch payloads on the Shuttle at around $118.00 per pound.
When Bigelow gets a habitat in orbit and people start renting it, then
we'll see what the price is, and how many customers are lining up.

Pat


You snipped a lot of context. I was arguing against the notion that
worker transportation costs would surely not justify hab construction.

Even given more pessimistic hab costs and more optimistic transportation
costs (the website you snipped said $450 million per shuttle trip),
transportation expense could justify construction of habs.

Hop