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- From: chrisb@seachg.uucp (Chris Blask)
- Subject: Re: Freedom's orbit
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.191022.1221@seachg.uucp>
- Reply-To: chrisb@seachg.UUCP (Chris Blask)
- Organization: Sea Change Corporation, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
- References: <14JAN199319564419@judy.uh.edu> <kcs-150193083953@sheppardson.larc.nasa.gov> <1j6r6aINN6fs@mojo.eng.umd.edu> <1993Jan15.192031.6998@iti.org> <1j74t4INNa2k@mojo.eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 19:10:22 GMT
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- In article <1j74t4INNa2k@mojo.eng.umd.edu> sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu writes:
- >In article <1993Jan15.192031.6998@iti.org>, aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer) writes:
- >>In article <1j6r6aINN6fs@mojo.eng.umd.edu> sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu writes:
- >>>And Alan thinks you'll see a Soyuz sitting on top of a U.S. booster launched
- >>>from a U.S. facility....
- >>Oh, that's a given. The booster may be the Shuttle but we will see Soyuz
- >>being launched for (at the very least) ACRV on US launchers.
- >And the booster to lift ACRV may not be shuttle, for that matter. Lockheed has
- >made a proposal to use Proton <sp?> to deliver them to Freedom.
-
- 'scuse me if this has been covered, but Buzz Aldrin apparently has been
- advocating using the Energia boosters (larger and cheaper than enything we
- have, yes?) to boost US payloads, and possibly putting Freedom into Mir's
- orbit to take advantage of both Mir and the leftover Russian lifting
- capability (OMNI Jan '93). I'm sure western aerospace companies are
- clutching at their chests over that idea, as if they didn't have enough
- problems in the slash-and-burn budget environment, but then again, who
- cares? I mean, life's rough, and a track record of public funding isn't a
- guarantee of future funding.
-
- I'm sure there are lots of great arguments why it isn't that simple, but
- still, if it comes to having or not having a platform (which is really
- where we are now) we need to have the damn thing. Combining the two
- services seems like a brilliant idea to me, with the shuttle and our
- high-tech experience and know-how and the Russian workhorse lifters, Mir
- (for what it's worth) and their experience with 'just do it' engineering,
- we could be in business within my lifetime. Current scheduling doesn't
- seem to have a chance in hell of actually _getting_ the thing up there any
- time soon.
-
- Flame the hell out of me if I'm just being niave.
-
- -chris blask
-