On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 16:31:56 GMT, (Henry Spencer)
wrote:

In article ,
Rusty Barton wrote:
Where would we be today?

Atlantic Ocean floor near Florida would be littered with about 125
Saturn-IB first stages, for one thing.

I doubt it. Well before that point, people would have started working on
incremental steps toward reusability. (Reusable S-IB stages *had* been
studied, in fact.) Arguably that was a more sensible approach in any
case; it just didn't look attractive to NASA in 1970.

....But could the concept have been extended to BPC's & their boosters?
:-)


OM

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