Re: Vision of the three Rs: Regular, Reliable and Reusable
- From: Fred J. McCall <fmccall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 14:46:56 GMT
simberg.interglobal@xxxxxxxxx (Rand Simberg) wrote:
:On 5 Mar 2007 22:22:53 -0800, in a place far, far away, "Totorkon"
:<aertrion@xxxxxxxxx> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a
:way as to indicate that:
:
:>> The parallel goal would be to establish demand, but that's another
:>> subject.
:>
:>The ISS is expected to weigh in at about 400 tons when complete, yet
:>no component is over 30 tons. Would it be possible to build a manned
:>base on the moon with payloads limited to under 20 tons?
:
:Probably. In fact I suspect it could be done in five-ton increments,
:as long as the cost per ton were low enough.
:
:>This would certainly keep an RLV busy for some time.
:
:Yes, it would, but too many people have a heavy-lift fetish.
Don't lose sight of the fact that the smaller the individual pieces
are the more of your mass is wasted in the connectors...
--
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable
man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore,
all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
--George Bernard Shaw
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