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- From: BrianT@cup.portal.com (Brian Stuart Thorn)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: Terminal Velocity of DCX? (was Re: Shuttle ...)
- Message-ID: <71878@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 20:10:25 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <xhk2syn@rpi.edu> <71780@cup.portal.com> <h0l2prg@rpi.edu>
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- >>Ever hear of the "Manned Orbiting Laboratory"? A Gemini with a very
- >>Spacelab-like module launched together by Titan III.
- >
- >Yeah, I've heard of it. I've also heard that it was cancelled about 25 years
- >ago, and that none of them ever flew.
- >
- >Spacelab is very dependent on the Shuttle for life support, power, and heat
- >rejection. You couldn't fly it on a Titan IV (which was my point).
- >
- >Mike
-
- My point was that we could do more or less the same thing without
- Shuttle. MOL was cancelled without a manned flight (a boilerplate
- flew, though) basically because NASA was already spending billions
- on SkyLab and the Congress said 'No.'
-
- -Brian
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