Comments on: More on Griffin http://www.spacepolitics.com/2005/03/14/more-on-griffin/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=more-on-griffin 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/2005/03/14/more-on-griffin/#comment-2608 Tue, 15 Mar 2005 12:00:45 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=476#comment-2608 Dr. Foust has written a good summary of Dr. Griffin’s recent statements on space exploration. It is worth noting that Griffin’s comments on the costs of the human lunar exploration plan compared to the First Lunar Outpost (FLO) program that he proposed when he was at NASA are slightly mistaken. I too wondered why NASA’s proposal now seemed so much more expensive than a similar proposal a little more than a decade before.

However, it turns out that the figure Griffin cited for FLO did not include the government’s own management costs, only the money that would be paid to contractors. Once you add those projected costs to the FLO costs, then the total FLO number and the current projected cost for the lunar portion of the VSE are much closer to each other.

I had a few e-mail conversations with Griffin back in the first several months of 2004 when I was preparing several articles on the costs of the VSE. I cannot remember if this specific issue came up, but we did discuss some of the Space Exploration Initiative cost figures. However, the Congressional Budget Office produced a report that adjusted the figures. (I was involved as an unpaid consultant and later a reviewer of that report.) The CBO report can be found online.

]]> By: Bill White http://www.spacepolitics.com/2005/03/14/more-on-griffin/#comment-2607 Mon, 14 Mar 2005 17:55:28 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=476#comment-2607 I just saw Space Review linked on the front page at google news. The Griffin article.

Well done!

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