Comments on: CRS study on lunar mission costs http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/06/03/crs-study-on-lunar-mission-costs/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=crs-study-on-lunar-mission-costs Because sometimes the most important orbit is the Beltway... Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Dwayne A. Day http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/06/03/crs-study-on-lunar-mission-costs/#comment-556 Thu, 03 Jun 2004 20:26:12 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=196#comment-556 Many of the numbers in this CRS report were actually leaked to Aviation Week a couple of months ago. However, now that they are in a CRS report they go from being merely rumors reported in the press to being official NASA numbers. But being official is not the same as being right. This is not yet an independent cost review of the proposal.

All of that said, we must still take early cost estimates with a pound or two of salt. If we look back at Apollo, the initial cost estimates fluctuated quite a bit. NASA has not yet developed things like a mission mode and the milestones necessary to reach their goal, so it is difficult to put a dollar figure on a question mark. The agency needs time to define the program.

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