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- From: David.Anderman@ofa123.fidonet.org
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: Soyuz as an ACRV
- X-Sender: newtout 0.06 Jan 3 1993
- Message-ID: <112110cb2@ofa123.fidonet.org>
- Date: 20 Jan 93 23:31:02
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- DA>>Under the terms of the Launch Services Purchase Act, NASA is prohibit
- DA>>from orbiting non-shuttle-specific payloads. Therefore,
- DA>>using the shuttle to orbit Soyuz spacecraft contravenes the LSPA.
- >
- EH>Why do you assert that it is not STS specific, since the final design
- EH>not yet established? For example, the design might require a full
- EH>load of fuel/oxidizer to do safe deorbit and landing, so it would need
- EH>to be docked without using the propulsion system by placing it with th
- EH>RMS on the Shuttle.
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- The final design of Soyuz was established in 1965 by Sergei Korolyov.
- There have been modifications since. Soyuz is not a Shuttle specific
- payload. Any attempt to call a Soyuz a shuttle-specific payload falls
- under sophistry.
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- EH>>However, several U.S. commercial vendors can supply launchers that
- EH>>can easily orbit a Soyuz for a more reasonable price than the shuttle
- EH>>a nice side benefit, this would create a second means of access to sp
- EH>>in the US, in case the shuttle fleet is grounded.
- EH>
- EH>The cost to orbit might be cheaper by commercial carrier, depending on
- EH>how you do the accounting. As we have seen here, the entire governmen
- EH>uses different procedures for figuring the "cost" of something. If th
- EH>STS fleet is grounded, the only impact aside from STS-specific ops wou
- EH>be on Freedom. This might or might not be critical.
-
- Since Freedom and shuttle will be the only manned space activities in
- this country, grounding of the shuttle would mean the end of manned space
- here. This might or might not be critical, depending on your point of
- view.
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