Billionaire blasts off for space station

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17997517/

On Apr 8, 3:21 am, wrote:
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Russia has a rather nasty habbit of turning an honest profit. Too bad
our methods are so far between, extra spendy and otherwise damn lethal
(not to mention having been extra polluting as all get out).

I guess we've also got too much of our perpetrated cold-war cloak and
dagger crapolla that's still to deal with.
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I guess


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A waste of money.

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Is $25 million fair? Looks like marginal cost pricing to me.

If I had that much money I could upgrade my Internet link.

Sylvia.

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Is $25 million fair? Looks like marginal cost pricing to me.

If I had that much money I could upgrade my Internet link.

It's $25 million above and beyond the low level of funding paid for by the
Russian government. The Russian space program has been suffering badly from
lack of money ever since the demise of the Soviet Union. It's pretty much a
given that the Russian space program will sell you anything, if the price is
right.

Jeff
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Jeff Findley wrote:

"Sylvia Else" wrote in message
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17997517/


Is $25 million fair? Looks like marginal cost pricing to me.

If I had that much money I could upgrade my Internet link.


It's $25 million above and beyond the low level of funding paid for by the
Russian government. The Russian space program has been suffering badly from
lack of money ever since the demise of the Soviet Union. It's pretty much a
given that the Russian space program will sell you anything, if the price is
right.

Well, marginal cost pricing is what orginisations in financial
difficulties do.

I suspect that if the depreciation of the ISS and other infrastructure
that should be attributed to this tourist were properly accounted for,
the cost of having him up there would exceed the $25 he paid.

Mariginal cost pricing is a short term solution to a cash flow problem,
nothing more. It would probably make financial sense for NASA to pay the
$25 million themselves to put one of their own astronauts up there instead.

Sylvia.

In uk.sci.astronomy Sylvia Else wrote:

Mariginal cost pricing is a short term solution to a cash flow problem,
nothing more. It would probably make financial sense for NASA to pay the
$25 million themselves to put one of their own astronauts up there instead.

Well, they could replace you on your next holiday more cheaply. Perhaps
they should do that instead?

FoFP

M Holmes wrote:

In uk.sci.astronomy Sylvia Else wrote:


Mariginal cost pricing is a short term solution to a cash flow problem,
nothing more. It would probably make financial sense for NASA to pay the
$25 million themselves to put one of their own astronauts up there instead.


Well, they could replace you on your next holiday more cheaply. Perhaps
they should do that instead?

If they can get whatever technological or scientific benefit they're
after that way, then why not?

Sylvia.

In article ,
Jeff Findley wrote:
...The Russian space program has been suffering badly from
lack of money ever since the demise of the Soviet Union. It's pretty much a
given that the Russian space program will sell you anything, if the price is
right.

Yes, they've been acting amazingly like capitalists. Certain Western
space organizations in nominally-capitalist countries could learn
something from it, if they bothered to pay attention.

One of the signs of honest capitalism is that when you ask for something
that's going to be difficult and inconvenient to provide, the answer is
not "forget it" but "that's really going to cost you".
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