Re: 10 meter diameter CaLV

On 28 Apr 2006 10:55:53 -0700, in a place far, far away, "Will McLean"
<mclean1382@xxxxxxx> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a
way as to indicate that:

An interesting report from Flight International

http://www.flightglobal.com/Articles/2006/04/25/Navigation/177/206161/CEV+landing+system+re-evaluated+.html

Says they are going to a ten meter diameter CaLV so they can use
RS-68s.

So much for using tooling for the ET. The Shuttle-derived launcher
just got a lot less Shuttle derived. It was probably a choice between
that, or raising the height of the VAB.
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