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- From: aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer)
- Subject: Re: Rent Mir/Commerical SS Fred not build it.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.210546.19022@iti.org>
- Organization: Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow
- References: <1993Jan27.184307.1@acad3.alaska.edu> <1k9b54INN5i1@phantom.gatech.edu>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 21:05:46 GMT
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- In article <1k9b54INN5i1@phantom.gatech.edu> matthew@phantom.gatech.edu (Matthew DeLuca) writes:
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- >>I know Mir is far from ideal, but what is.. Why reinvent the wheel when the
- >>wheel is already in Orbit??
-
- >Because if you just keep using the same wheel, you never develop better
- >wheels. Sure, we can do as some people have suggested and rent Mir and
- >buy Soyuzes and use Energia and save lots of money, but the end result would
- >be the complete stasis of the space arm of the U.S. aerospace industry,
- >coupled with Russian dominance of space down the line.
-
- I'm not sure our current path will result in any difference. As it is,
- NASA is avoiding cheaper commercial services as much as it can. We are
- pouring more and more money into an infrastructure which is getting more
- and more expensive. The end result has been a statis of the US space
- arm for a long time.
-
- Maybe intelligent leverage of Russian technology (like Soyuz) combined
- with US capabilities in ELV and cheap commercial HLV's will allow space
- to become large enough to become self sustaining and end the stasis.
-
- Allen
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