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- Path: sparky!uunet!hela.iti.org!aws
- From: aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer)
- Subject: Re: Shuttle replacement
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.142445.20795@iti.org>
- Organization: Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow
- References: <1992Nov18.034010.18488@Princeton.EDU> <1992Nov19.144309.22398@iti.org> <q!z1l0f@rpi.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 14:24:45 GMT
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- In article <q!z1l0f@rpi.edu> kentm@aix.rpi.edu (Michael V. Kent) writes:
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- >The Shuttle does many many things that nothing else in the fleet will do. The
- >most obvious is serve as a manned spacecraft.
-
- Nonsense. In a pinch we can stick a Soyuz on an Atlas or Titan.
-
- >The original article in this thread listed many more.
-
- All of which have existing or near term alternatives.
-
- >>Titan IV can lift any existing or planned payload Shuttle can lift.
-
- >The Shuttle has twice the payload capacity of the Titan IV.
-
- Nonsense.
-
- >It can also
- >launch cargoes the Titan IV can't touch. Would _you_ volunteer to fly a
- >Spacelab mission in a Titan IV payload fairing?
-
- What I would do is to use the Titan to launch it, dock with any of the
- simple, easially built space station ideas exising today and operate it
- year round. That way we can use Spacelab 365 days a year instead of
- a week or so every two years.
-
- Let's not forget that one capability of the Shuttle is the ability to
- insure that key experiments are only done once every few years or so.
- It is only one of the many ways that the space shuttle is hampering
- routine cheap access to space.
-
- Allen
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