> "millions"? Don't you mean "trillions"? Whom are we bombing today?
>
> FW


2003 Spending:
 $14.6 Billion NASA
$358.2 Billion Department of Defense

Cost of one shuttle launch is about $500 million.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2004/nasa.html
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2004/defense.html

If the odds of a catastrophic failure of a shuttle misson are 2 out of 113 (1.8%),
this is about as dangerous as 1200 recreational skydiving jumps.  But it's fairly
safe compared to a WWII bombing mission.

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