Re: Man-Rating Atlas V


"Jonathan Goff" <jongoff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Personally, I'm a fan of missions that involve dozens of launches. So
long
as it drives the cost per pound down, and doesn't require NASA to build
and operate it's own vehicles at great expense. I get the feeling that
this
design path that is supposedly the "quickest way to get back to the
moon"
will not only cost more, and deliver less than a more sensible, less
NASA-centric implementation of the Vision, but it will also take far
longer,
and in the end be less safe, and less dependable.

Sounds like the space shuttle program all over again, doesn't it?

Jeff
--
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a
little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor
safety"
- B. Franklin, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919)


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