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- From: mjohnson@jedi.decnet.lockheed.com (Mark E. Johnson)
- Subject: Re: Shuttle Bashing
- Message-ID: <mjohnson-211192082742@129.197.97.65>
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- Organization: Lockheed, USC, and UT-Austin
- References: <1992Nov19.155527.7807@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 16:28:12 GMT
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- > The main point I want to make is that you NEED the shuttle to build
- > the space station.
-
- My coworkers and I were discussing this yesterday (we're designing the
- Space Station solar arrays). Isn't the shuttle the primary reason Space
- Station Freedom is being built and deployed in a relatively low orbit?
- That's what I always understood. And let me tell you, that is a *big*
- problem, in terms of an environment that has too much debris and is hostile
- (corrosive) to organic materials--such as composites and most lubricants.
- Granted, we didn't know all of this until LDEF was retrieved.
-
- What would it have taken (too late now) to build Freedom in a higher orbit?
- More shuttle flights, at less cargo per flight? Or another launch vehicle
- altogether, like Shuttle/C or NLS?
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- What ever happened to Shuttle/C? When I worked for Rockwell five years ago,
- that sounded like a viable alternative.
-
- _____________________________________________________________________________
- -Mark Johnson
- mjohnson@jedi.decnet.lockheed.com
-