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- From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: SSTO vs. 2 Stage
- Message-ID: <ewright.725658384@convex.convex.com>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 19:46:24 GMT
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- In <18892@mindlink.bc.ca> Bruce_Dunn@mindlink.bc.ca (Bruce Dunn) writes:
-
- > We have been launching staged rockets for nearly half a century. I
- >think the problems of staging, if not trivial, are solvable. Certainly,
- >historical evidence indicates that staging is less of a technical challenge
- >than SSTO operation.
-
- Bingo!
-
- Okay, now we've gotten to the crux of the problem.
-
- You simply do not understand the difference between a converted
- artillery rocket, which we have been launching for nearly half
- a century, and a single-stage-to-orbit *spaceship*.
-
- Saying that launch vehicles should be multistaged like ICBMs
- makes as much sense as saying that airplanes should be shaped
- like cannonballs.
-