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- From: dietz@cs.rochester.edu (Paul Dietz)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: Saturn V for Freedom deployment
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.150327.3516@cs.rochester.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 15:03:27 GMT
- Article-I.D.: cs.1992Nov17.150327.3516
- References: <BxtoxL.7n0@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <dfegan.722009437@node_2204c>
- Organization: Computer Science Department University of Rochester
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- In article <dfegan.722009437@node_2204c> dfegan@lescsse.jsc.nasa.gov (Doug Egan) writes:
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- > The Saturn V booster consumed extreme amounts of liquid fuel.
- > (NOT practical today...)
- > I am also under the impression that the design documents were
- > somehow lost... (Maybe to favor the Shuttle program.)
- >--
- > Doug Egan
- > Lockheed Engineering and Sciences Co.
-
-
- Good grief.
-
- All rockets use large amounts of fuel. Liquid fuels are *cheap*.
- Most of the propellant used by the S-V was LOX/RP-1, in the first
- stage. LOX is about $.05/lb, RP-1 somewhere around $.20/lb. Even if
- you use 100 pounds of propellant to put 1 pound of payload into orbit,
- the cost is negligible compared to the cost of the S-V's hardware and
- the labor involved in its launch.
-
- Paul F. Dietz
- dietz@cs.rochester.edu
-