Aucbvax.5311 fa.space utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!space Thu Nov 26 12:10:02 1981 SPACE Digest V2 #42 >From OTA@S1-A Thu Nov 26 03:19:46 1981 SPACE Digest Volume 2 : Issue 42 Today's Topics: Re: SPACE Digest V2 #40 COST OF SHUTTLE FLIGHTS Please add me to the Mailing list ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 25 Nov 1981 11:45:49-PST From: decvax!duke!unc!bch at Berkeley To: decvax!duke!unc!space@Berkeley Subject: Re: SPACE Digest V2 #40 Murphy lives! ------------------------------ Date: 25 Nov 1981 1238-PST From: Terry C. Savage Subject: COST OF SHUTTLE FLIGHTS To: SPACE at MIT-MC cc: tcs at USC-ECL The most recent number I have heard for the marginal cost of a shuttle flight is $50M, but I don't think this includes an adequate allowance for the ground support. To round up for inflation, and to be generally conservative, assume that the actual marginal cost to a private user would be about $80M. I have seen first cut designs for a passenger module for the shuttle that would pack about 60 people in like sardines. In addition to being technically doubtful, that kind of arrangement would significantly reduce the market for some kinds of travel (vacation in particular). If you allow a reasonable amount of room for support equipment, a bar, and the like, a passenger capacity of 20 is probably believable, which would yield a per person cost of #$2M. This, of course, doesn't take into account the purchase of the passenger module, much less it's development cost. I guess my vacation in space will just have to wait a few years. TCS ------------------------------ From: DIGEX@MIT-AI Date: 11/26/81 00:22:16 Subject: Please add me to the Mailing list DIGEX@MIT-AI 11/26/81 00:22:16 Re: Please add me to the Mailing list To: Space-Enthusiasts at MIT-MC CC: DIGEX at MIT-AI Please add me to the mailing list. Thanks, Doug ------------------------------ End of SPACE Digest ******************* ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.