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- From: higgins@fnalf.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: Saving an overweight SSTO....
- Date: 11 Jan 93 12:27:25 -0600
- Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
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- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.122725.1@fnalf.fnal.gov>
- References: <1993Jan11.075346.12742@bby.com.au>
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- In article <1993Jan11.075346.12742@bby.com.au>, gnb@baby.bby.com.au (Gregory N. Bond) writes:
- > Suppose DC-X works more-or-less as planned, and they go ahead and
- > attempt to build a DC-Y/DC-1. And suppose the pollyannas are right
- > and it bloats and the dry mass goes up. ^^^^^^^^^^
-
- Cassandras?
-
- > There are a couple of scenarios here:
- [...]
- > 3) The mass overrun is much larger than that. At this point, the
- > project is lost; however I suspect that (given the findings of the
- > various reports into the general feasability) this is much less likely
- > than the previous cases.
- >
- > And in any case, you know a lot more than when you started, and you
- > can do it right next time!
-
- If DC-Y flops, there won't BE a next time for SSTO. Not before our
- teeth fall out.
-
- What a Pollyanna. (-:
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