The [original] numbers that NASA gave to the White House were that shuttle would cost about $5.5 million per launch and the launch rate would be anywhere between 50 and 60 launches a year.
"John Logsdon" is former Director of the Space Policy Institute at The George Washington University.
Logsdon was a member of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board. He is a current member of the NASA Advisory Council. He is frequently cited as an authority on space policy by press entities such as The New York Times and The Washington Post, and in appearances on the PBS NewsHour.
More John Logsdon on Wikipedia.The emphasis is on achieving goals rather than elegance, ... It has several elements to it. One is to say that the people who did Apollo were pretty smart.
You can't start talking about space until you set an overall policy. Our space relationship gets to a basic question of whether the United States tries to contain an emerging China or engage it.
You might tap an initial pool of people with lots of money and nothing better to do.
Most people use a figure like $400 [million] or $500 million [per launch]. Anyway you look at it, it's a lot of money.
The fact that it comes at a particularly inopportune moment is unfortunate, but either we are serious about long-term commitments like this or not. Nobody is asking for more money. Apollo was done as a warlike mobilization of national resources and there's no reason to do that now.
It's been pretty well coordinated among the centers. It appears to provide for a smooth transition.
The emphasis is on achieving goals rather than elegance.
It has several elements to it. One is to say that the people who did Apollo were pretty smart.
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