Author Topic: How much and how long to get these crewed spacecraft flying?  (Read 1187 times)

Offline kirghizstan

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Atk says they can have liberty flying crew by 2015 if hey get the funding.  No word of how much, but that is beside he point.

Anyone care to take a guess for how long it would take to get each system flying with crew if they were given he go ahead today.  If you want o get crazy trow in how much funding you hint each would need to get to that date.

Dragonrider
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Liberty

« Last Edit: 05/10/2012 06:13 pm by kirghizstan »

Offline savuporo

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Regardless of the proposed numbers for time and money, keep these in mind
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23. The schedule you develop will seem like a complete work of fiction up until the time your customer fires you for not meeting it.
27. Schedules only move in one direction.
29. To get an accurate estimate of final program requirements, multiply the initial time estimates by pi, and slide the decimal point on the cost estimates one place to the right.
39. The three keys to keeping a new manned space program affordable and on schedule:
       1)  No new launch vehicles.
       2)  No new launch vehicles.
       3)  Whatever you do, don't decide to develop any new launch vehicles.

These are immutable laws, that apply universally for both government and private projects.
Orion - the first and only manned not-too-deep-space craft

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