Re: 10 meter diameter CaLV

Douglas Holmes wrote:
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Leave it to NASA
If there is an easy way and a hard way they choose the hard way.

All that just so they can have one launch instead of two.
Huh?

They *are* going to have two launches - one CLV and one CaLV.

NASA calls it 1.5 launches.
Regardless of the nomenclature, your objection still makes no sense.

If NASA increases the number of launches they can use:
4 segment solid rockets already in production.
The existing fuel tank.
RL-10 engines for the upper stage also aready in use.

If they stick with the current architecture they need:
NEW 5 segment solid rockets
NEW taller wider fuel tank
NEW upper stage engine.


The first rocket is much easier to design and build then the second.
NASA is choosing the second or the hard way.

"We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not only because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.

It is for these reasons that I regard the decision last year to shift our efforts in space from low to high gear as among the most important decisions that will be made during my incumbency in the office of the Presidency."

You know, I really feel sorry for NASA employees. It's not their fault.

George W. Bush and Michael Griffin are just not serious about space.

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