Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:50 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
In article <1138463295.177443.90660@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, edkyle99@xxxxxxxxxxx (ed kyle) wrote:
> I have to say I'm not comfortable with the idea
> of using one of those damn SRBs to launch the new machine.
>
> Unfortunately, the agency still intends to fly more than a
> dozen shuttle flights. I wish it wouldn't.
If people are willing to fly in them why shouldn't they? Provided they
know the risks and are willing to take them?
Where would the USA have been if after the first settlers died out,
everybody had said that it was too risky to colonise another world, and
stayed in Europe?
Nothing is without risk. In my view the best memorial to those who have
died is pick oneself up and carry on. The worst memorial possible is to
say that they died for nothing and give up. I accept that as you were
closer to them, your view may be different, but it is also coloured by
that experience.
Re: Someone to defend the Stick? ... The number of SRBs per flight will be cut in half. ... SRBs for a Shuttle launch, it should take the same number of people ... don't need to add back for a Heavy Lift SDLV....Design it for easy servicing and assembly ... (sci.space.policy)
Re: Should "The Stick" be scrapped? ... the number of launch pads), that you throw away every time, it will ... what you are talking about is a hydrocarbon core with a pair ... Our disagreement with SRBs is purely mechanical and chemical. ... The Dyna-soar and MOL/Blue Gemini... (sci.space.policy)
Re: Should "The Stick" be scrapped? ... Actually, what you are talking about is a hydrocarbon core with a pair of SRBs, and some sort of high energy upprt stage. ... For cryogenics that would have to be a frozen stiff tank for launch, and then made flexible, presumably during reentry, but for hydrocarbons it should be doable. ... Here the wing tanks feed a conventional linear rocket fuselage until the fuel exhausted, presumably subsonic at 50-60 thousand feet or higher, and then Delta IV Medium sized core continues on to orbit when the very light flying wing detaches, and glides and powers back to the launch site. ... (sci.space.policy)
Re: Someone to defend the Stick? ... >> to stack 2 SRBs for two CEV launches. ... Do they build both SRBs for a Shuttle simultaneously? ... Unless Atlas 5-Mega builds a large mobile launch facility like either ... (sci.space.policy)
Re: Someone to defend the Stick? ... > Do they build both SRBs for a Shuttle simultaneously? ...Atlas team wouldn't grow appreciably if used for manned launches. ... > Unless Atlas 5-Mega builds a large mobile launch facility like either ... mission than use of EELV for CEV missions.... (sci.space.policy)
