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  1. Newsgroups: sci.space
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!ieunet!tcdcs!dherity
  3. From: dherity@cs.tcd.ie (Herity D.)
  4. Subject: Re: Saving an overweight SSTO....
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan11.123344.10579@cs.tcd.ie>
  6. Organization: Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin
  7. References: <1993Jan11.075346.12742@bby.com.au>
  8. Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 12:33:44 GMT
  9. Lines: 13
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  11. gnb@baby.bby.com.au (Gregory N. Bond) writes:
  12.  
  13. >2) The mass overrun is a substantial fraction of payload, or exceeds
  14. >payload.  Then a possibility would be to delete the life support and
  15. >crew cockpit and use the thing unmanned.
  16.  
  17. Its planned to be unmanned. It may later carry passengers in a special
  18. module, but it doesn't need a crew.
  19. -- 
  20. -----------------------------------------------------------|"Nothing travels   |
  21. | Dominic Herity,  dherity@cs.tcd.ie,                      |faster than light, |
  22. |Computer Science Dept, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland.|except possibly bad|
  23. | Tel : +353-1-6772941 ext 1720 Fax : +353-1-6772204       |news"-Douglas Adams|
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