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By: Trent Waddington

Trent Waddington — Mon, 17 May 2010 07:31:12 +0000

Mike said, “Iâ€™d much rather find a more ambitious third space program.”

Why? So you can write about it on your blog? I mean, that’s fun and all, I’ve done it, but how is it relevant to this website? Let’s try to stick to the topic. The politicians are deciding what to do with NASA, not us. What do you think of their ideas? Who’s making the most sense?

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By: Robert G. Oler

Robert G. Oler — Sat, 15 May 2010 16:24:48 +0000

Vladislaw wrote @ May 15th, 2010 at 2:18 am

very funny

Robert G. Oler

By: Vladislaw

Vladislaw — Sat, 15 May 2010 06:18:48 +0000

Robert this is what we need for Jeff's site. check this out

By: Vladislaw

Vladislaw — Sat, 15 May 2010 05:55:26 +0000

Thanks Robert for digging that out. That is using the total costs of the station. I thought you were refering to cargo only.

By: Robert G. Oler

Robert G. Oler — Sat, 15 May 2010 05:42:45 +0000

Vladislaw wrote @ May 15th, 2010 at 1:23 am

I believe it might have been 10 million a month that he saw in the article,

here is the article

http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1579/1

here is the quote (I was modestly wrong)

“ISS has been crewed since November 2000 by two- to six-person teams. From then on to 2015, we could estimate that the station will be manned by some 20,000 person-days. Considering its $150-billion price tag, that would mean that each day spent onboard by an ISS crewmember costs about $7.5 million (compared to $5.5 million for Skylab.)”

I regret saying 10 million a day per crew…I will recall now the 7.5 million number

Robert G. Oler

By: Vladislaw

Vladislaw — Sat, 15 May 2010 05:23:51 +0000

I believe it might have been 10 million a month that he saw in the article, that would put it at around 720 million per year for the 12 people. This is also closer inline to what Robert Bigelow said, 15-20 million for your launch fee and first month and 3 million per month after the first one. I can see NASA paying three times as much but not 30 times.

By: Vladislaw

Vladislaw — Sat, 15 May 2010 05:17:58 +0000

“Vladislaw, the US doesnâ€™t have six people on the ISS.”

Trent, I know that, but Robert didn’t specify U.S. astronauts only, he said:

â€œRight now it cost about 10 million dollars a day to sustain a single person on ISS”

So I calculated what the full crew rate would be. Since ISS doesn’t get 21 billion per year I thought that number may be incorrect.

By: eh

eh — Sat, 15 May 2010 05:02:21 +0000

Of course he made sense and presented some rational points. This will only engrage the anti-Obama plan folks more.