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- 1 program. NASA actually spent $9.9 billion in real year dollars to George Mueller, Associate Administrator for Manned Space Flight, take the Shuttle through design, development and initial testing. This NASA, "Honorary Fellowship Acceptance," address delivered to the sum, when converted to fixed year 1971 dollars using the aerospace British Interplanetary Society, University College, London, England, price deflator, equals $5.9 billion, or a 15 percent cost overrun on August 10, 1968, contained in John M. Logsdon, Ray A. Williamson, the original estimate for phase one. Compared to other complex Roger D. Launius, Russell J. Acker, Stephen J. Garber, and Jonathan L. development programs, this was not a large cost overrun." See Howard Friedman, editors, Exploring the Unknown: Selected Documents in the McCurdy, "The Cost of Space Flight," Space Policy 10 (4) p. 280. For History of the U.S. Civil Space Program Volume IV: Accessing Space, a program budget summary, see Jenkins, Space Shuttle, p. 256. NASA SP-4407 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1999), pp. 11 202-205. STS stands for Space Transportation System. Although in the years just
- 4 See also comments by Robert F. Thompson, Columbia Accident Shuttle Development," June 8, 1986, p. 1-7. Investigation Board Public Hearing, April 23, 2003, in Appendix G. 16 The 1971 cost-per-flight estimate was $7.7 million; $140.5 million dollars
- 51 Ibid. 75 Testimony of Sean OʼKeefe, Deputy Director, Office of Management and
- 52 Roy Bridges, Testimony before the Columbia Accident Investigation Budget, to the Committee on Science, U.S. House of Representatives, Board, March 25, 2003. "The Space Station Task Force Report," Hearing Before the Committee
- 54 National Commission on Space, Pioneering the Space Frontier: An the NASA Advisory Council," (Viewgraphs) December 11, 2002, p. 11. Exciting Vision of Our Next Fifty Years in Space, Report of the National CAIB document CAB065-0189. Commission on Space (Bantam Books, 1986). 77 General Research Corporation, Space Shuttle Budget Allocation Review,
- 56 Office of Space Systems Development, NASA Headquarters, "Access to Space Study—Summary Report," January 1994, reproduced in John M. Logsdon, et al. eds., Exploring the Unknown, Volume IV: Accessing Space NASA SP-4407 (Government Printing Office, 1999), pp. 584-604. 120 Report Volume I August 2003