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- From: prb@access.digex.com (Pat)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Sabatier Reactors.
- Date: 24 Jan 1993 15:21:52 -0500
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- |From: redin@lysator.liu.se
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- |-In sci.space you write:
- |Freedom decided not to use methane thrusters. so instead they are
- |-throwing out waste CO2 and importing hydrazine. failure oriented
- |-management wins again. someone thought methane thrusters were
- |-too risky.
- |Methane more risky then hydrazine? but, but, but, oh well :-(
- |I simply dont understand the US pork barrels. Couldent they have
- |launched 4-5 miniature stations with single shuttle flights to test
- |things out? The first 1-2 is junk and cannot be habitable and are
- |scuttled after the shuttle flight, next 3-4 can be manned between
- |two flights or more and number 5 - n can be bolted to a truss and
- |you have your tested, safe freedom with bells and whistles that _work_.
- |You will get at least as much pork and much more space station.
- |Why in hell are they stuck inside CAD simulations and paperbins?
- |Magnus Redin Lysator Academic Computer Society redin@lysator.liu.se
- |Mail: Magnus redin, Rydsv{gen 240C26, 582 51 LINK|PING, SWEDEN
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- The problem is not that methane is risky. We have been using methane
- industrially for 150 years. but that SSF management said, no-one has ever
- space qualified a methane oxygen thruster so damn if we will.
- Failure oriented management.
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- and as for the other idea, i guess that's what skylab was. of course
- now NASA is such an arthritic bureaucracy, i dont think they really want
- to fly packages so much as study them. actually who needs to build
- mini stations. for small items test them in the shuttle cargo bay,
- for longer duration, test them on MIR.
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- but that would be too easy, i guess.
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- pat
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