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From: sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu (Doug Mohney)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Moonbase race
Date: 21 Apr 1993 19:19:37 GMT
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In article <C5tEIK.7z9@zoo.toronto.edu>, henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:

>Apollo was done the hard way, in a big hurry, from a very limited
>technology base... and on government contracts.  Just doing it privately,
>rather than as a government project, cuts costs by a factor of several.

So how much would it cost as a private venture, assuming you could talk the
U.S. government into leasing you a couple of pads in Florida? 



    Software engineering? That's like military intelligence, isn't it?
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