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- From: cbehre@spock.usc.edu (Charles Behre)
- Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle,sci.space
- Subject: Re: Shuttle replacement
- Date: 16 Nov 1992 10:51:46 -0800
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- |> What about the SSTO DC-Y? It's my understanding that the DC-1 should be
- |> able to do just about everything that the shuttle can do (with the possible
- |> exeption of carry the SpaceLab). And a lot cheapter to boot.
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- What level of success would the DCX testing program have to show to make it a
- viable candidate? Does this program have the ability to fascinate congress and
- Al Gore if it demonstrates what it intendend to do? On the other hand, would a
- DCX program shifted to taking on the duties of a HL-20 be a disasterous
- move in terms of the programs efficiency?
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- Also on a side note, the Nov 2 issue of Av Week reports that Pratt & Whitney has
- finished testing the DCX's preproduction version of the RL10A-5 engines and will
- begin shipping them by years end.
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- --Chip
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