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miscAugust 29, 2005 8:23 pm
NEW! Space Shuttle Replacement
Look here: Return to the Apollo-esque launch vehicle
Looks like NASA’s decided to go back to the safer type of launch vehicle.
Thoughts?
(SSME = Space Shuttle Main Engine)
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Hey, if it ain’t broken’ don’t fix it!
Comment by paladin — August 29, 2005 @ 8:49 pm
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That’s just it - we’ve lost TWO (2) shuttles to minor oversights, and the last flight of Discovery was more or less a random chance of failure.
By eliminating the problem - the Shuttle’s flawed design by launch - it coulod go back to the Apollo success rate (the launch vehicle, that is) of 0 failures during launch.
Mind you, Apollo 1 failed (burned) due to an electrical failure in the command module. Apollo 13 failed due to an oxygen tank exploding in the command module. I see a connection here, but to the human-support systems. Apollo didn’t have those failures.
Of course, I could have competely misinterpeted what you said to mean the booster rocket idea rather than the shuttle :p
Comment by Ramius — August 29, 2005 @ 9:04 pm
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Ok, it seems like we are on the same page. Rockets good, shuttles bad. Until we can find a more effecient form of proplosion, a reusable space vehicle is just not going to cut it.
Comment by paladin — August 30, 2005 @ 11:13 pm
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