Re: Japans Moon Ambitions - They're KIDDING, Right ?

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


Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 23:52:30 GMT

On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 14:43:27 -0600, in a place far, far away, "Paul F.
Dietz" <dietz@dls.net> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a
way as to indicate that:

>Fred J. McCall wrote:
>
>> In any relatively 'low production rate' system that third '9' is
>> usually a pig to get....
>
>And now they're saying half the risk in any shuttle flight is from
>orbital debris strikes. Experience isn't going to solve that one.
>That all by itself may make airline-type reliability for reusable
>launchers impossible.

Yes, but it's not necessary to achieve that level, and there's such a
huge current gap between the two that there's plenty of room for
improvement.



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