home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!metro!socs.uts.edu.au!kralizec.zeta.org.au!ixgate!ralph.buttigieg
- From: ralph.buttigieg@f635.n713.z3.fido.zeta.org.au (Ralph Buttigieg)
- Message-ID: <3_713_635.02b4e7a50@Kralizec.fido.zeta.org.au>
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: What was NASA thinking?
- Organization: Fidonet. Gate admin is fido@socs.uts.edu.au
- Date: 09 Jan 93 17:10:08 GMT
- Lines: 20
-
- Original to: Clarke@Next1.Acme.Ucf.Edu
- c> Hence the question in the title of my post: What was NASA
- c> thinking about? Apparently the Saturn engines could have
- c> been used to build the shuttle vehicle. Why weren't they?
- c>
- c> A shuttle with 5 or 6 J-2s using 2 uprated F-1s in the recoverable
- c> boosters would have taken advantage of a history of literally
- c> dozens of successful flight firings. Plus there would
- c> have been a much wider range of abort modes.
- c>
-
- But how reusable were the Saturn engines? Then again, how reusable are
- the SSME...
-
- ta
-
- Ralph Buttigieg
-
- --- Maximus 2.01wb
- * Origin: Vulcan's World-Sydney Australia 02 635-1204 (3:713/635)
-