One Giant Leap Backward
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unclejimboBush calls for Spacecraft to Replace Shuttles for planned mission to Mars
The Moron wants to go and build Apollo type space capsules for the job instead of developing something that would be reusable. Plus, we don't have any rockets capable of launching an Apollo type vehicle any more. We quit building Saturn V rockets in 1972.
BLAHRGH!!!
The Moron wants to go and build Apollo type space capsules for the job instead of developing something that would be reusable. Plus, we don't have any rockets capable of launching an Apollo type vehicle any more. We quit building Saturn V rockets in 1972.
BLAHRGH!!!
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Date: 2004-01-14 05:20 pm (UTC)Russians saw the limitations of that design and made their orbiter to be 'strapped on' to their Energia booster. (A Saturn V caliber rocket!)
Right now, we have no rockets larger than the Titan 4 booster. Even that one is insufficient to lift an Apollo type vehicle with a service module.
His idea of doing it by 2015 is actually realistic if he really plans on following though. But still, a space plane for near Earth activities seems to be a logical part of any long term space effort.