Re: Air Force Signs Off on SRB-CEV

On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 21:43:51 -0000, in a place far, far away,
gherbert@xxxxxxxxx (George William Herbert) made the phosphor on my
monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

>> Either approach would be many, many
>>billions of dollars cheaper over the life of the
>>programs than keeping duplicate production lines
>>open.
>
>The point of this is not to save money,
>it's to avoid having a standdown of any one
>system take the whole US capability to launch
>large sized military payloads away.

As opposed to a standown of Shuttle-derived systems, which will result
in an inability to get to the moon, and resupply/changeout crew for
any base existing there. I guess that's OK, though.
.

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