spaceshipone update 8
it should be noted that the whole development, construction, testing, staff etc. for spaceshipone has so far has not finished using the original 20 million dollars stumped up by paul allen. a single space shuttle flight costs between 400 and 600 million dollars. spaceshipone is, apart from fuel, fully reusable. the space shuttle needs considerable refit after each flight - between 10 and 20 percent from estimates i've seen.
it is for this sort of reason that i dislike nasa so - they have managed to put back spaceflight decades through sheer incompetence. i rejoice because the days of their monopoly are fast ending.
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tithonus) wrote,
tired
