Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!rochester!dietz
From: dietz@cs.rochester.edu (Paul Dietz)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Launch Rates
Message-ID: <1989Sep26.005923.15211@cs.rochester.edu>
Date: 26 Sep 89 00:59:23 GMT
Reply-To: dietz@cs.rochester.edu (Paul Dietz)
Organization: U of Rochester, CS Dept, Rochester, NY
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Is anyone but me increasingly perplexed by NASA's snail-like
launch schedule?  If the shuttles can be flown faster than they
currently are, why isn't NASA doing it?

At the current flight rates the shuttle is prohibitively expensive,
much worse than expendables.  It's an old trick to say that the
shuttle is really as cheap as expendables, by assuming faster
flight rates.  But the last time NASA tried to launch that fast
they screwed up fatally.

	Paul F. Dietz
	dietz@cs.rochester.edu