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Thu Nov 12 03:58:51 1981
SPACE Digest V2 #32
>From OTA@S1-A Thu Nov 12 02:49:21 1981

SPACE Digest                                      Volume 2 : Issue 32

Today's Topics:
			 Re: SPACE Digest V2 #31
	       Television coverage of the Shuttle Columbia
	       Television coverage of the Shuttle Columbia
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Date: 11 Nov 1981 12:49:57-PST
From: A.exp at Berkeley

The following summary of NASA Shuttle charges is based on internal figures
as of October 1981.

Until 1986, the use of a full Space Shuttle bay, including launch costs,
for one day, will be about $40 million, plus or minus 5 million.  Additional
days are extra.  Beginning in 1986, NASA will charge $52 million for this
service, with the true cost now estimated at $62 million.  (All figures
are in 1986 dollars, which are 2.7x greater than 1975 dollars.)

This table shows costs for the Shuttle version of a mission compared
to what it could have cost if NASA had built a new expendable vehicle
called the ELV.  It is probably good until a year or two after 1986.


Mission Class           Vehicle           Cost (million$)


Delta                   Shuttle           26
                        ELV               38

Atlas-Centaur           Shuttle           71 (or 42 if Shuttle optimized
                                              for this mission class)
                        ELV               69


Titan                   Shuttle          150 (includes use of IUS)
                        ELV              164 (if 4 launched per year)
                        ELV              230 (if 2 launched per year)


Note that the ELV would always have been cheaper for Titan class missions.
Also, the Ariane can launch payloads that the Shuttle needs the IUS for.

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Date: 11 Nov 1981 1742-PST
From: Alan R. Katz <KATZ USC-ISIF AT>
Subject: Re: SPACE Digest V2 #31
To: Space-Enthusiasts at MIT-MC
cc: KATZ at USC-ISIF
In-Reply-To: Your message of 11-Nov-81 0307-PST

What??? Whether or not the Shuttle will be run by a private company doesn't
belong in SPACE but in POLI-SCI??  I missed something.  


					Alan
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Date: 12 Nov 1981 0036-EST
From: ELF at MIT-DMS (Eric L. Flanzbaum)
Reply-to: ELF at MIT-DMS
To: Space at MIT-MC
Subject: Television coverage of the Shuttle Columbia
Message-id: <[MIT-DMS].215213>


Just for the record ...

	While watching Television tonight (11/11) (channel 4)
	during a staion break the following was said:

	"Your station to watch for the coverage of the Space
	 Shuttle Columbia . . . . . . . whenever that may be"

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Date: 12 Nov 1981 0036-EST
From: ELF at MIT-DMS (Eric L. Flanzbaum)
Reply-to: ELF at MIT-DMS
To: Space at MIT-MC
Subject: Television coverage of the Shuttle Columbia
Message-id: <[MIT-DMS].215213>

Notes:

Oh yes, just following the station break was a news-cast about
the delay in the shuttle launch.


Message:


Just for the record ...

	While watching Television tonight (11/11) (channel 4)
	during a staion break the following was said:

	"Your station to watch for the coverage of the Space
	 Shuttle Columbia . . . . . . . whenever that may be"

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