Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Re: SSTO! Message-ID: <5167@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Mar-85 20:10:34 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.5167 Posted: Mon Mar 4 20:10:34 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Mar-85 20:10:34 EST References: <699@mordor.UUCP> <5131@utzoo.UUCP>, <825@ames.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 14 > > ...And some > > of the folks pushing this method think that $100/lb is a ridiculously > > high cost to orbit and could be beaten easily. > > It's amazing how cheap any easy things are when they're still on paper (or > in the computer) and you haven't had to make them work yet. Remember > when the shuttle would bring costs down to $500/lb to LEO? I think it > runs around $3,000 and up in actuality. Yup. But remember that the under-$100/lb cost for the scramjet shuttle is also a paper number, and is thus fair game for comparison. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry