Re: Ares alternatives? "NASA renegades"


"Derek Lyons" <fairwater@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Jeff Findley" <jeff.findley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It's physically possible but is it economically viable? The development
costs alone are killing Ares I and Ares V. Since neither are flying, it's
my opinion that the operational costs are largely unknown. Every change
to
Ares I impacts operational costs, and there seems to be no end to the
changes required to get Ares I to fly.

I often wonder just how s.s.* would have reacted to the endless
changes and ever increasing costs and weight of the various Apollo
vehicles and modules.

Likely favorably since, at the time, there was always hope that Saturn V
production would continue beyond Apollo and would become the workhorse of
the 70's manned space program.

Jeff
--
"Many things that were acceptable in 1958 are no longer acceptable today.
My own standards have changed too." -- Freeman Dyson


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