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Dale Bumpers: “I want to add one point about the cost of keeping the astronauts supplied with in water in space. As I said before, it…”

On the recordSeptember 4, 1996
I want to add one point about the cost of keeping the astronauts supplied with in water in space. As I said before, it will cost $12,880 per pound to ship water to the space station. With each astronaut allocated 9.5 liters of water per day, that comes to $1.9 million per day just to keep a crew of six supplied with water. I've done some more calculations and that comes out to about $700 million per year. Let me say that again, because I think that is sliding over everybody's head. We are talking about almost three-quarters of a billion dollars a year to send water to six people on the space station. Now, you talk about balancing the budget, that is a great way to do it.
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Dale Bumpers
Arkansas
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Discussing the high cost of supplying water to astronauts on the space station.

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