home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!dtix!darwin.sura.net!convex!convex!ewright
- From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: Pilots must be stupid? (Re: DC vs Shuttle capabilities
- Message-ID: <ewright.725130175@convex.convex.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 17:02:55 GMT
- References: <ewright.724956784@convex.convex.com> <zms23rp@rpi.edu> <ewright.725062372@convex.convex.com> <gjt2v-d@rpi.edu>
- Sender: usenet@news.eng.convex.com (news access account)
- Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
- Lines: 43
- Nntp-Posting-Host: bach.convex.com
- X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
- Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
- not necessarily those of CONVEX.
-
- In <gjt2v-d@rpi.edu> strider@clotho.acm.rpi.edu (Greg Moore) writes:
-
- >>You can walk from one place to another carrying a four-ton
- >>cargo container? On Earth? I doubt it.
-
- > Carry it while walking? no, but I can drive it.
-
- If you have a flat tire?
-
- See, for every "greater difficulty" you can think of in
- space, I can think of one on Earth.
-
-
- > Again, I think I see were we are differing. See my other
- >post on timeframes. But to recap, I agree, after a couple thousand
- >more hours of EVA time, we'll have a lot more down.
-
- If the cost of putting one man into space was $50,000, instead
- of $5,000,000, you'd be able to rack up a thousand man-hours
- of EVA time pretty fast.
-
-
- >A diver can swim back. Or, with enough air (which they should
- >always have) resurface.
-
- Not if they're SEALs in a combat zone. Or cave divers. Or
- under ice. Or working in an underground sewer system. All
- of which are done routinely today.
-
-
- >>What makes you think a DC-1 can't accomplish a hard docking.
- >>
- > I wasn't aware that it could. This I understand would
- >have to be an added capability? HOw does it dock? through the
- >nose? or along the side?
-
- The McDAC illustration shows it docked alongside. I'm sure
- the docking adapter would be an added capability, carried in
- the cargo bay. Why carry it along on flights where you don't
- need it?
-
- If you consider this a problem, well, the Shuttle's docking
- adapter works the same way.
-