"Rand Simberg" wrote in message
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On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 10:41:46 -0400, in a place far, far away, "Michael
Gallagher" made the phosphor on my monitor glow
in such a way as to indicate that:

I was thinking about NASA's Moon plan, and it occurs to me the heavy
lifter's
SRBs and first stage should be powerful enough to orbit a deaprture stage
that doesn't have any fuel in it, so it could be oribtted as a dry
workshop,
just as the original Skylab was a modified S-IVB stage orbitted by the
first
two stages of a Saturn V.

But what to do with it? Two possibilities spring to mind:

Oh, you must be referring to the initial module of a much larger
propellant depot. ;-)

Has there ever been any refutation of the Profac nuclear air scoop concept?

http://www.bisbos.com/rocketscience/...ac/profac.html

If the numbers are to be believed, this could scoop enough propellant every
couple months to launch a lunar mission.