Re: Man-Rating Atlas V

On 25 Sep 2006 09:47:14 -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:


Rand Simberg wrote:

But not because they don't want to build a big enough launcher to do
it all it once. It's because of their nonsensical policy of not
wanting to mix crew and cargo (one of the many foolish "conclusions"
from the Shuttle).

Not really. They considered launching the crew on the cargo launcher.
They chose not to do it because they concluded the big cargo launcher
would be less reliable than the stick.

In other words, they don't want to mix crew and cargo.
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