Re: Air Force Signs Off on SRB-CEV
John Schilling wrote:
Right. NASA rules. Which do not bind NASA, because NASA can rewrite or
waiver itself out of NASA rules. HArdly something unprecedented where
man-rating was concerned.
*Recently*?
If NASA wants to put the CEV on the Stick, NASA will write the rules such
that only the Stick can carry the CEV. If NASA wants to put the CEV on
an EELV, then that's what NASA rules will say. And if NASA just wants to
put the CEV safely in orbit, then NASA rules will say that the CEV can
ride any vehicle that can safely carry it into orbit, and it will ride
an EELV.
Or a Falcon V.
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