Re: NASA Needs A Bigger Ares V



On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:37:47 GMT, in a place far, far away, "Alan
Erskine" <alan.erskine@xxxxxxxxxxx> made the phosphor on my monitor
glow in such a way as to indicate that:

"Rand Simberg" <simberg.interglobal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:47e9745f.893189688@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:24:59 GMT, in a place far, far away, Brian
Thorn <bthorn64@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> made the phosphor on my monitor glow
in such a way as to indicate that:

Maybe go back to the higher Isp SSME instead of RS-68?

That would really up the per-flight cost.

You mean higher than it will be with the current configuration? :-/

Yes, that's that's what those words generally mean. I wasn't implying
that the current planned cost will be low.
.



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