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Subject: SPACE Digest V13 #447
SPACE Digest Volume 13 : Issue 447
Today's Topics:
Re: Government vs. Commercial R&D
SPACE Digest V13 #444
Re: Energia (was Re: Saturn V blueprints)
Sorry, this is a little off the subject
Re: Saturn V and the ALS
Saturn V vs. ALS
Re: Galileo status reports
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Re: R-100 and R-101
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Subject: Re: Energia (was Re: Saturn V blueprints)
In article <00947905.3FAEE140@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU>, sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney) writes:
>
> They need the cash too badly...they'd provide decent services. There's nothing
> which NASA needs to lift into orbit on Energia which couldn't wait a couple of
> years in case of disruption of launch services from the Soviet Union via
> political events.
>
Yeah, but the couple of years disruption might turn into no more launchers
from the USSR, and then where would we be? No heavy lift vehicle, and
nothing in the pipeline. Or when we get dependant on them for the space station, what's to keep them from raising prices to soak 'those evil capitalists'
when we really need to keep crew members alive.
No... its a bad idea and I'm sorry I even mentioned it!
I feel much more comfortable with US made space hardware.
Incidentally, to those who feel the USSR wouldn't do that, I'd hasten to point
out the growing power of the 'hardliners' who still denounce us as the root