"Jeff Findley" wrote:


"Greg D. Moore (Strider)" wrote in message
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Not if you do it right. Make the pads generic, make the MLPs specific.

Keep at least 3 MLPs, perhaps build a 4th.

This would seem to be the way to go. Since "the stick" would be so much
smaller than the heavy cargo lifter, it seems like you'd want to at least
attempt to keep as much of the stick's specific hardware on the MLP.

While 'specific' MLP's and MST's (mobile service towers) are the way
to go at first blush - it seems to me that it can get expensive (both
in aquisition and maintenance) fairly quickly.

The real problem however is the VAB - whose interior cannot be swapped
out easily. Can it be made generic?

/me Ponders a three part solution, custom MLP + custom MST + a
swappable VAB 'liner'. The last two might be combined into one with
the VAB interfaces (in each bay) made 'generic'.

D.
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