Reply to post: Re: Life without the shuttle

Not only is Hubble back online after outage, it's already taking photos of the cosmos

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Re: Life without the shuttle

>Whoever comes up with a reuseable space runabout that can do work more or less anywhere it is needed will dominate the space business.

It's bucks, not Buck Rodgers, that drives this. The resuable space shuttles cost $209 billion/848 launches = $240 million per launch. It's a nice idea, but it isn't resuable that is needed, it is economically reusable.

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