The emphasis is on achieving goals rather than elegance. -John Logsdon

 

The emphasis is on achieving goals rather than elegance.


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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.

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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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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. -John Logsdon
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You might tap an initial pool of people with lots of money and nothing better to do.

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Most people use a figure like $400 [million] or $500 million [per launch]. Anyway you look at it, it's a lot of money.

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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. -John Logsdon
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It's been pretty well coordinated among the centers. It appears to provide for a smooth transition.

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