Postpone shuttle’s retirement?
That’s what one politician wants, saying NASA should keep flying the shuttle to avoid depending on Russia to fly astronauts up.
That could be a disaster, much better to take that average cost of $450 million per shuttle launch and offer $450 billion to the first private company to launch someone to the space station by, say 2011.
Or better yet, for eye-catchiness, take the cost of 2 shuttle launches and round up slightly. $1 billion ought to turn heads, don’t you think?
