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NASA Plans to Build Two New Shuttle-derived Launch Vehicles
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| Friday, July 1, 2005
| Keith Cowing
Posted on 07/01/2005 5:28:52 PM PDT by Arkie2
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It's back to the future for NASA as they elect to build the new shuttle as two distinct systems, one for cargo and one for manned flight.
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posted on
07/01/2005 5:28:53 PM PDT
by
Arkie2
To: Arkie2
To: Arkie2
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posted on
07/01/2005 5:39:32 PM PDT
by
cabojoe
To: Arkie2
Vegas is probably giving 5 to 1 odds right now that Rutan beats NASA back to the Moon...
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posted on
07/01/2005 5:42:23 PM PDT
by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: Southack
As much as I admire Burt I don't think I've ever heard him say he's going to the moon. His next step will be to try and get into orbit.
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posted on
07/01/2005 5:44:35 PM PDT
by
Arkie2
(No, I never voted for Bill Clinton. I don't plan on voting Republican again!)
To: Arkie2
He's got plenty of time...
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posted on
07/01/2005 5:45:26 PM PDT
by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: Arkie2
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posted on
07/01/2005 5:46:02 PM PDT
by
FReepaholic
(When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading)
To: Arkie2
They're going the HLV route, I wonder how much that's going to cost?
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posted on
07/01/2005 5:46:26 PM PDT
by
Brett66
(Where government advances – and it advances relentlessly – freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
To: Southack
Saw another article today about a company designing a nuclear power plant to be sent to the moon. Lots of stuff going on.
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posted on
07/01/2005 5:46:57 PM PDT
by
Arkie2
(No, I never voted for Bill Clinton. I don't plan on voting Republican again!)
To: Arkie2
While members of Congress from the space states . . . will not be happy to hear that jobs will be lost. Porkers. New construction will more than compensate for loss of NASA jobs.
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posted on
07/01/2005 5:49:04 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty)
To: Arkie2; RadioAstronomer
I believe this was RA's idea.
To: Arkie2; All
In hearings earlier this week before the House Science Committee Griffin said "But I cannot responsibly prioritize microbiology and fundamental life science research higher than the need for the United States to have its own strategic access to space." Sen. Hutchison, who chairs the subcommittee on Space And Science has a somewhat different view and has introduced legislation that would bar Griffin from such large cuts.
What did Sen. Hutchison do before becoming a senator?
To: Arkie2
Assuming half-wit bureaucrats do not keep him earthbound with red tape and outdated regs.
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posted on
07/01/2005 5:53:37 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: Brett66
If I read the article right the cargo vehicle will be on the order of the Atlas V. That's impressive and yet the cost of developing these two seperate vehicles would have been less and far more effective than the shuttle ever was. It's too bad we wasted all those years and money on that white elephant along with that other monument to waste, the ISS.
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posted on
07/01/2005 5:53:46 PM PDT
by
Arkie2
(No, I never voted for Bill Clinton. I don't plan on voting Republican again!)
To: RightWhale; Brett66; xrp; gdc314; anymouse; RadioAstronomer; NonZeroSum; jimkress; discostu; ...
Something they should have done IN THE FRELLING FIRST PLACE!!!
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posted on
07/01/2005 5:56:31 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(the space/future belongs to the eagles, the earth/past to the groundhogs)
To: Arkie2
Well, we may finally have discovered the existence of intelligent life forms at NASA. But this plan makes too much sense. Congress surely will find a way to derail it because jobs will be lost somewhere, somehow.
To: Arkie2
Based on what I read at the Space Frontier forum, someone estimated this could launch a 260,000 lb. payload to LEO for less than $2000/lb.
That would be impressive, I hope NASA can pull this one off.
SDV
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posted on
07/01/2005 8:02:33 PM PDT
by
Brett66
(Where government advances – and it advances relentlessly – freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
To: <1/1,000,000th%
I believe you are (100%) correct.
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posted on
07/01/2005 8:47:02 PM PDT
by
norton
(build a wall and post the rules at the gate)
To: KellyAdmirer
The words "soon" and "NASA" don't belong in the same paragraph together. "Dithers" and "NASA" I could agree with.
To: Brett66
Based on what I read at the Space Frontier forum, someone estimated this could launch a 260,000 lb. Make that 170, 200, and 240 tons or 340,000, 400,000, 480,000 lbs to LEO . :)
We'll show those Ruskies!
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posted on
07/02/2005 2:22:08 AM PDT
by
demlosers
(Allegra: Do not believe the garbage the media is feeding you back home.)
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