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- From: hack@arabia.uucp (Edmund Hack)
- Subject: Re: Fabrication (was fast track failures)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.191256.17793@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
- Sender: Edmund Hack
- Organization: Lockheed ESC, Houston
- References: <ewright.726434023@convex.convex.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 19:12:56 GMT
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- In article <ewright.726434023@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
- [Stuff about Saturn V deleted]
- >
- >In fact, there were plenty of missions that could have justified
- >its expense: the follow-on Apollo missions, additional Skylabs,
- >Space Base, nuclear-powered space tugs, and the manned Mars mission,
- >to name a few. The Saturn was cancelled because Congress didn't
- >want to do those missions and NASA didn't want anything to compete
- >with Shuttle.
- >
-
- The Urban/Orbital Legend that Will Not Die!
-
- BZZZT! 50% wrong. The Saturn V production line was closed down well
- before the shuttle became anything other than one of a number of
- competing ideas for later launchers (including SSTOs derived from the
- Saturn Ib). The S-V line was terminated in either CY or FY 68 as I
- recall. STS was seriously started a few years later.
-
- Congress did make the decision to kill S-V and all the later projects
- you mention, although several (such as manned Mars missions) were more
- along the lines of wish lists and paper studies.
-
- --
- Edmund Hack - Lockheed Engineering & Sciences Co. - Houston, TX
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