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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Re: What was NASA thinking?
- Message-ID: <C0pI6M.BKt@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 20:27:56 GMT
- References: <3_713_635.02b4e7a50@Kralizec.fido.zeta.org.au>
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- In article <3_713_635.02b4e7a50@Kralizec.fido.zeta.org.au> ralph.buttigieg@f635.n713.z3.fido.zeta.org.au (Ralph Buttigieg) writes:
- > 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.
- >
- > But how reusable were the Saturn engines? Then again, how reusable are
- > the SSME...
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- Any regeneratively-cooled liquid-fueled engine ought to be reusable almost
- indefinitely, if it's mounted on a reusable vehicle. Test-stand experience
- certainly supports this.
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- -Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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