On 13 Jul 2003 18:45:12 -0700, (TVDad Jim) wrote:

Hubble would have been a lot smaller. So would TDRS satellites.

....I sort of doubt this, simply because the 1B would have been either
complemented or even replaced by a bigger intermediate-size booster.
An uprated S-II derived booster with a wider orbital insertion stage -
Non-NERVA S-III, anyone? - or even a downscaled three-engine Saturn V
would have been developed. As we had Atlas, Titan and Delta, so with
the larger boosters as well.

Of course, there's the notion of the reusable CM, which no doubt would
have been developed at least as far as a cargo pod concept...


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