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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Re: SSTO vs 2 stage
- Message-ID: <C03wLL.KC1@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 04:32:07 GMT
- References: <19045@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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- In article <19045@mindlink.bc.ca> Bruce_Dunn@mindlink.bc.ca (Bruce Dunn) writes:
- >> Advances in technology, perhaps, but hardly recent advances. The old
- >> Saturn S-IVB stage could've been turned into a SSTO launcher...
- >
- > This somewhat confuses the issue, in that it tends to imply that the
- >technology necessary to build a DC-1 was available a generation ago. The
- >S-IVB derivative would be a ***non-reusable*** SSTO...
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- No, some of the S-IVB-based SSTO proposals were reusable. I don't know
- how well they would have worked, and I don't know that I'd plan a spaceline
- based on them without waiting a while to see how reusable they really were,
- but on paper it was feasible.
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- "God willing... we shall return." | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
- -Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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