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- From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
- Subject: Re: Stupid Shut Cost arguements (was Re: Terminal Velocity
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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 20:32:24 GMT
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- In <1993Jan5.003325.26043@iti.org> aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer) writes:
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- >We could fly Soyuz on an Atlas or Titan.
-
- Why? If we're buying Soyuz spacecraft from the Russians,
- it would make a lot more sense to buy the boosters also
- and skip the integration problem.
-
- >We could build a small station with room and power equal to Shuttle. We
- >could dock the two and get far more work done for far less money.
-
- Who is "we?" If you mean NASA, I don't think so. A space station
- like you're talking about would be more of a construction project
- than an R&D project. NASA isn't set up to handle those.
-
- (On the other hand, I don't think you need to limit your thinking
- to small space stations. If you're working with the Russians, why
- not put an Energia third stage into orbit? Convert it into a "wet"
- lab, and you've got a habitable volume bigger than Freedom.)
-
-
- >We don't use Russian rockets; we use Atlas or Titan. Both routinely rebuild
- >their launchers to conform to payload interface requirements and NASA's
- >evaluation of Soyuz as ACRV indicate that using Soyuz with US aerospace
- >standards isn't a problem.
-
- However, we haven't man-rated the Atlas or Titan since the 60's.
- The current assembly lines for those vehicles are pretty much
- booked already. You could expand them, of course, but the lead
- time for a man-rated Atlas or Titan would be several years.
-
-