[net.space] relative launch economics

henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (01/02/86)

> ...The Shuttle costs $1000/lb less to operate than Saturn...

Don't forget that Saturn was operated as a "fifteen shots and that's it"
operation, since volume production was cancelled quite early, whereas the
shuttle is a continuing system.  One would expect that an ongoing Saturn
operation would have been cheaper than the Apollo prices (although it's
hard to say by how much).
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