On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 10:52:11 -0700, Charles Buckley
wrote:

Alan Figgatt wrote:
Tom Abbott wrote:

My comments in [brackets]
[With the use of large-capacity cargo launch vehicles, we
can eliminate this problem. We have the perfect launch
system to do this, the space shuttle launch system. Instead
of launching space shuttles, we can launch cargo and
propellants, using the space shuttle's launch system (the
large orange External Tank (ET), the solid rocket boosters,
and space shuttle main engines, among other things).]


You seem to be fixated on using the shuttle launch system for sending
missions to the
moon.

You're new here, aren't you?



Cut him a little slack, Charles. It has been quite a
while since I posted on sci.space.policy.


Go to google and do a search on newsgroup for Tom. You'll be able to
get a good feel for the way he wants to develop things.



If you are a glutton for punishment! It might take you a
couple of years to read it all.


TA