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Old January 26th 05, 07:18 AM
Rand Simberg
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On 26 Jan 2005 03:06:50 GMT, in a place far, far away, "Jorge R.
Frank" made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:

Nice. 18 x $400m = $7,200,000,000 worth of Shuttle flights to support
a worthless space station that has cost $150b so far.


Wrong numbers. 6 years x $4b/year = $24 billion for the shuttle program
through 2010. But the space station program has not cost anywhere near
$150b so far. In fact, it has yet to crack $50b: $9b for 1984-93, roughly
$2b/year since.


Only if you don't count the costs of Shuttle, required to actually
deliver and assemble it.
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Old January 26th 05, 07:34 AM
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On 26 Jan 2005 03:21:20 GMT, in a place far, far away, "Jorge R.
Frank" made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:

Wrong numbers. 6 years x $4b/year = $24 billion for the shuttle
program through 2010. But the space station program has not cost
anywhere near $150b so far. In fact, it has yet to crack $50b: $9b for
1984-93, roughly $2b/year since.


Only if you don't count the costs of Shuttle, required to actually
deliver and assemble it.


OK, then throw in 3/4 of the shuttle budget from 1998-2003. You still don't
get anywhere near $150b.


True. You don't even crack fifty.
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Old January 26th 05, 07:43 AM
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The sooner it dies, the sooner we get a next generation space telescope,
hopefully launched with a conventional booster and not limited in size by the
shuttle bay. (Or an interferometric pair of space telescopes!)

-- Charlie Springer
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Old January 26th 05, 08:59 PM
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Eric Chomko wrote:

Given that the HST won't be getting a robit mission, should we
continue with the technology and actually develop and test it on
ISS?! (Proof of concept).


Looks like such testing has already begun. From today's ISS report:

"The crew first installed a Universal Work Platform at the forward
end of the large conical section of Zvezda. They mounted a German
commercial experiment called Rokviss (Robotics Component Verification
on ISS) on the platform... The Rokviss consists of a small double-
jointed manipulator arm, an illumination system and a power supply.
....Rokviss will test the ability of lightweight robotic joints to
operate in the vacuum of space for future assembly work or satellite
repair and servicing."

 




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