On Jul 5, 2:40*pm, Quadibloc wrote:
On Jul 5, 10:48*am, Michael Gallagher wrote:

And there are growth versions of the Atlas V with the
listing capcity of the Saturn V or better.

I vaguely recalled how versions of the Titan had grown since the days
of the Gemini program; that the Atlas has also grown, and even to a
greater extent, since Mercury, comes as a bit of a surprise.

Considering that it uses the RD-180 engine, made guess where, using
_that_ to send astronauts to the ISS would not *quite* dispel the
image of America being dependent on Russia for this task...

Outsourcing!

John Savard