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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Re: Double flight ?
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- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 17:51:49 GMT
- References: <1992Jul22.093505.22310@newshost.anu.edu.au>
- Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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- In article <1992Jul22.093505.22310@newshost.anu.edu.au> smukherj@student.anu.edu.au (Sujit Mukherjee) writes:
- >Are there any plans at this stage of having more than one orbiter in space
- >at one time. That is a double flight ?
-
- No plans for it, unless perhaps they end up doing it as part of early
- space-station missions where a long-stay orbiter stays connected to
- the station while other missions are flown. (It's too early to say
- what, if anything, is going to happen to the station.)
-
- >Would it be possible and/or viable for NASA to do this ?
-
- There's no fundamental problem, although some support facilities might
- have to be beefed up to handle two at once.
-
- >If it was how would they handle the launches of the separate vehicles ?
-
- Stack them simultaneously, roll them out to the pads, launch them. There
- are two launch pads and two fully-equipped VAB bays. Again, various
- support facilities might have to be beefed up, and you might need to hire
- more technicians to handle the processing.
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- There is nothing wrong with making | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
- mistakes, but... make *new* ones. -D.Sim| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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