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The news said it costs 2 million dollars to bring the shuttle back to Florida on the back of the 747



 
 
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Old June 4th 09, 02:15 PM posted to sci.space.shuttle
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Default The news said it costs 2 million dollars to bring the shuttle back to Florida on the back of the 747

How much does it cost to keep it up there an additional day?
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Old June 4th 09, 03:13 PM posted to sci.space.shuttle
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How much does it cost to keep it up there an additional day?
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It's not just keeping it up there - it's supplies to keep it up there; food,
water, air and electricity (the latter generated by fuel cells). There are
limits on all of these.


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Old June 4th 09, 03:54 PM posted to sci.space.shuttle
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On Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:13:15 GMT, "Alan Erskine"
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"lab~rat :-)" wrote in message
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How much does it cost to keep it up there an additional day?
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It's not just keeping it up there - it's supplies to keep it up there; food,
water, air and electricity (the latter generated by fuel cells). There are
limits on all of these.


I'm guessing all of that is taken into account when deciding how long
a landing can be postponed, but I was wondering what the dollar value
of another day in space would be.

If you had 4 extra days in supplies, could you keep the shuttle aloft
for 4 days and spend less than 2 million?
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Old June 4th 09, 05:13 PM posted to sci.space.shuttle
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Default The news said it costs 2 million dollars to bring the shuttle back to Florida on the back of the 747

But they already tried to get it down for two days so how long do you wait?

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Old June 4th 09, 08:40 PM posted to sci.space.shuttle
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On Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:13:15 GMT, "Alan Erskine"
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"lab~rat :-)" wrote in message
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How much does it cost to keep it up there an additional day?
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It's not just keeping it up there - it's supplies to keep it up there; food,
water, air and electricity (the latter generated by fuel cells). There are
limits on all of these.


I'm guessing all of that is taken into account when deciding how long
a landing can be postponed, but I was wondering what the dollar value
of another day in space would be.

If you had 4 extra days in supplies, could you keep the shuttle aloft
for 4 days and spend less than 2 million?


Speaking just for the last flight, NASA tried their hardest to keep the
shuttle aloft so that they would have additional opportunities for
weather to clear in Florida. It didn't work out. The landing was
originally scheduled on a Friday, they waited on Friday and then on
Saturday for weather to improve in Florida. They finally landed on
Sunday. If they had attempted to stretch an additional day (with
doubtful weather forecast anyway) they would have severely cut into
their safety margins. If they had hurried to bring the shuttle home a
day earlier than originally planned (i.e. on Thursday) they would have
not had acceptable weather either.

While I don't have the numbers, based on NASA's bias, it's safe to say
that bringing the shuttle home via the KSC runway is much cheaper and
eliminates the schedule impact off the cross country flight and flight
preparations. With Edwards, Dryden folks need to stop what they are
doing and prepare the shuttle there and still others need to fly out to
Dryden to work on it. Moving the shuttle is not risk free, either.
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Old June 4th 09, 10:06 PM posted to sci.space.shuttle
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Default The news said it costs 2 million dollars to bring the shuttleback to Florida on the back of the 747

� Moving the shuttle is not risk free, either


remember the time it wasnt mated properly to its carrier aircraft
it could of fallen off
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Old June 5th 09, 06:49 AM posted to sci.space.shuttle
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If you had 4 extra days in supplies, could you keep the shuttle aloft
for 4 days and spend less than 2 million?


It's not just cost - the crew's all packed up and ready to land and had been
on at least one previous occasion (as pointed out by other posters) - the
suits they wear for entry and launch can only be donned/doffed so many
times.


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Old June 15th 09, 05:33 PM posted to sci.space.shuttle
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On Fri, 05 Jun 2009 05:49:54 GMT, "Alan Erskine"
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"lab~rat :-)" wrote in message
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If you had 4 extra days in supplies, could you keep the shuttle aloft
for 4 days and spend less than 2 million?


It's not just cost - the crew's all packed up and ready to land and had been
on at least one previous occasion (as pointed out by other posters) - the
suits they wear for entry and launch can only be donned/doffed so many
times.


Seems like it would make economic sense to somehow account for extra
time in orbit. I imagine that there is a financial consideration
keeping the shuttle aloft. I guess no one has a real handle on what
it costs per day for the shuttle to stay up there beyond its scheduled
landing. I was thinking if you had supplies for an extra five days,
or maybe a week, would it pay off to wait out a storm.
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Old June 16th 09, 03:08 AM posted to sci.space.shuttle
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Default The news said it costs 2 million dollars to bring the shuttle back to Florida on the back of the 747

Seems like it would make economic sense to somehow account for extra
time in orbit. I imagine that there is a financial consideration
keeping the shuttle aloft. I guess no one has a real handle on what
it costs per day for the shuttle to stay up there beyond its scheduled
landing. I was thinking if you had supplies for an extra five days,
or maybe a week, would it pay off to wait out a storm.
--


Previous experience has shown that when orbit time is extended post-mission
the astronauts get bored and start telling off-color jokes, mooning and
throwing food. The mess that results costs more to clean up than to shuttle
the shuttle cross-country.


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Old June 22nd 09, 05:08 PM posted to sci.space.shuttle
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On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:08:54 -0700, "Burnham" puked:

Seems like it would make economic sense to somehow account for extra
time in orbit. I imagine that there is a financial consideration
keeping the shuttle aloft. I guess no one has a real handle on what
it costs per day for the shuttle to stay up there beyond its scheduled
landing. I was thinking if you had supplies for an extra five days,
or maybe a week, would it pay off to wait out a storm.
--


Previous experience has shown that when orbit time is extended post-mission
the astronauts get bored and start telling off-color jokes, mooning and
throwing food. The mess that results costs more to clean up than to shuttle
the shuttle cross-country.


Ok then. That makes sense.

There was a story about Armstrong and Aldrin mooning, but I think that
was entirely different...
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