NASA's new craft....

Jan 17, 2004 26 Replies

Maybe... after an enormous effort to replace the heat-shield. (Or am I wrong...?)

That's no plan. At best, it could be considered the preface to a plan. But a *plan* suggests WAY more details than were provided in that speech. ;-)

The idea is to use unmanned ships for cargo, and the CEV for people, right...? On a trip to the Moon, you're going to need some way of getting the cargo from the pod to the CEV - where it will be used.

Unless, of course, you plan to use the CEV as an 'emergency' vehicle on such trips... one or two of the cargo-ships could house habitat modules that will dock with the CEV and provide living space for the crew...

Bored hell! The party's just gettin' started!

:-)

John

Naw, gotta be a Coup! Coup de Thrill? :-)

John

Skylab could have been boosted to a higher orbit, of course, by a robotic propulsion module but planning for such a contingency would have required NASA managers to admit that delays would occur in the shuttle project. They didn't want to face that reality. Congress didn't help, either. When you say "nobody expected it" I think that means the general public. I'm sure there were people inside NASA, and others in the government, who would have predicted exactly what actually occurred. I suspect some of them were even counting on it. History will probably repeat itself. Only the entry of the Chinese into manned space operations will keep us from completely abandoning it.

Expect program delays due to requirements becoming moving targets. Since its the only game in town, this new vehicle will get loaded with so many "desirements" some versions will look like a Christmas tree.

What we need are massless, zero-volume, zero-drag wings. Yeah, that's the ticket.

Brad Hitch

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how come he aint sending out any new stuff? havent seen him in my inbox for months

"Doctor Fun is on an extended break until February 2004."

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