Re: Griffin Wants Inline SDLV and 5 Segment SRB/CEV


"Reed Snellenberger" <rsnellenberger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:Xns968774E61A541rsnellenbergerhousto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Congress has made it pretty clear that they want the schedule for CEV to
> be
> accelerated so that it's available for crew launches by 2010. They also
> make it pretty clear that they trust Griffin's technical judgement. I
> don't suspect funding will be too big of an issue.

I haven't seen what you seem to see. I see Griffin's choices being
questioned, and i see resolutions being floated to *extend* STS operations
until CEV is available.

> It wouldn't entirely surprise me to see the first qualification launche of
> the 5-segment stick booster (no upper stage) by late 2006, using Pad 39B
> and the third MLP as infrastructure.

There's no way the avionics and the TVC system will be ready for test by
then.


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