Emergency Funding

didnt we establish thta it really isnt hardware or fuel that makes up the
great costs for launching? That it was the thousands of personal?

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> > > 10 bill - Reusable vehicle design
> >
> > I know that the Shuttles cost about $2 bill apiece when the last one
> > rolled out. Do you have any idea how much the R&D was for the
> > program?
> >
> > I hope that this R&D is managed more efficiently than what I've read
> > about the Shuttle programs development.
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> Moreover, I think that those $10 billion would be better applied in
> bootstrapping a program for mass, serial production of Big Dumb Boosters.
It
> is a somewhat "proven" technology (Saturn V and the like), the payload
would