AAIGUY,
So it does - was originally put off reading it by the threat of a pop-up!
I seriously question NASA's costs for a flight at $230,000. If it takes 2 x 747 (capital costs of purchase and modification, depreciated over 25 years) on standby and 170 people per mission, plus the depreciation on all the rest of the ground equipment at Edwards, plus all the HQ costs, it surely must be $millions per flight.
Creative accounting?
Cheers,
TOO