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- From: aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer)
- Subject: Re: ASTM, Saturn and MOL (Was Re: MOL)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.205256.14114@iti.org>
- Organization: Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow
- References: <1h2egpINNmk9@mirror.digex.com> <BzMwJK.KKG@zoo.toronto.edu> <22DEC199214155306@judy.uh.edu>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:52:56 GMT
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- In article <22DEC199214155306@judy.uh.edu> wingo%cspara.decnet@Fedex.Msfc.Nasa.Gov writes:
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- >craft and the Apollo Soyuz Test Project used the Full up Saturn 1B. Remember
- >that the ASTP mission carried a Apollo CSM (45,000 lbs), the docking module
- >(15,000 lbs?) into the 51 degree Soyuz orbit. Not bad, Titan IV today could not
- >do that. Environmentally friendly too, relative to the Titan SRB's.
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- Another fun fact: Saturn 1B development was only $3.4 billion 1986 dollars
- compared to the Shuttle which cost over ten times as much to develop ($34.7
- 1986 dollars).
-
- Allen
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