JF Mezei wrote on Tue, 9 Apr 2019
18:18:28 -0400:

On 2019-04-03 06:01, Jeff Findley wrote:

Some talk online yesterday of stacking Orion on the pad, but then you
have to fuel the service module at the pad which would necessitate a
clean room at the pad.

Why would it *require* a clean room?. I know it is traditional to use a
clean room, which was the whole point of RSS for shuttle, but if they
raise Orion/Sm and put a fairing on right away, they wouldn't have to
fear birds mesting inside, would they?


Please go look up the purpose of a 'clean room'.


Shuttle had its payload doors opened for a very long time, so needed
protection.


Having them open AT ALL needs protection.


With BFR/BFS, what are Musk's needs in terms of the launch tower?
Perhaps the contract to launch Orion could pay for the launch tower
modifications to handle both Orion and BFR/BFS and SpaceX then gets
"free" launch tower for BFR/BFS.


Uh, do you know what 'fraud' is? In the contracting world, what you
describe is part of it.


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