Re: NASA rushes plan to send humans to moon, Mars, despite doubts ...

From: Rand Simberg (simberg.interglobal_at_org.trash)
Date: 03/01/05 

Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 18:11:31 GMT

On 1 Mar 2005 07:05:33 -0800, in a place far, far away, "Will McLean"
<mclean1382@aol.com> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a
way as to indicate that:

>While some earlier versions of the Shuttle-C had the constraint you
>mentioned, the variant they had in mind for Option C had a shroud that
>was big enough to take a seven meter diameter module. That seems plenty
>big enough for a respectable module.

It's better, but still not getting the maximum utility out of the
investment in a heavy lifter that a twenty-seven footer would provide.

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