Re: NASA Eyes Alternative to Shuttle Main Engine for Heavylift

NASA looked at exactly something like this - Shuttle-C
- during the pre- and post-Challenger era. They were
close to building it for space station until the Russia
was invited to the table and NASA had to drop the name
"Freedom". The full-scale Shuttle-C mockup still resides
in the MSFC boneyard.

But gee, where was Russia's wonderful Energia launcher?
By then it did not exist because, just like NASA's Shuttle-C,
it devoured money too fast.

NASA had the money but not the engine, the Russians had
the engine but not the money; evidently at the time there
was no function key on the TI and HP calculators then that
could calculate a solution from these conditions.

-BC

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