Space Lies, Damned Lies, & Statistics
9 Mar 2010, 18:47 UTC
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In an article in the L.A. Times, A lot is riding on SpaceX rocket, it was reported,
“The average space shuttle flight costs about $1 billion, he said. Flights from SpaceX will run around $100 million.”
Let’s go through those numbers a bit.
According to the Augustine Committee’s Final Report, p. 50, the fixed costs of the Shuttle [...]
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