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Subject: 
Re: Space Shuttle Costs
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Tue, 15 Dec 1998 22:43:11 GMT
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James <jamesmh@=AntiSpam=cwix.com>
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David Rawding - Consultant wrote:

On Dec 15,  8:52am, Fred Read wrote:
Subject: Space Shuttle Costs
Michael Chu wrote:

does anybody here know how much the space shuttle cost?

Well in excess of 5,000 Million US dollars (if you don't include the • one
that blew up).

UMMMMM....you mean 5 billion?

A U.S billion yes, not the same in all countries. A UK Billion is a
million million, where as a US billion is a thousand million.





[The humour impaired may require a smiley but I don't do smileys...]
--

If it ain't opinionated, it ain't Rich Teer.

-- End of excerpt from Fred Read



Message has 1 Reply:
  Re: Space Shuttle Costs
 
I apologize to all (and to David Rawding) for having started this off topic thread. - - - Nick - - - (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)

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  Re: Space Shuttle Costs
 
(...) one (...) UMMMMM....you mean 5 billion? (...) (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)

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