Re: Fill'R'Up


"Rand Simberg" <simberg.interglobal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:47015afc.273715492@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:06:29 -0400, in a place far, far away, "Jeff
Findley" <jeff.findley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> made the phosphor on my monitor
glow in such a way as to indicate that:
This begs the question, how big of a hammer head can you stick on top of
Atlas V Heavy or Delta IV Heavy? Could you launch an empty TLI stage and
a
lander on one?

Yes. That question was answered in CE&R, which NASA ignored once Mike
Griffin came in.

You never diss the boss's pet projects in front of his face! ;-)

Perhaps there is hope that sanity will eventually prevail and the entire
Ares program will be terminated?

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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