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Old September 20th 05, 10:48 AM
Monte Davis
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"Ron Bauer" wrote:

The Saturn V was replaced by a reusable space shuttle. This was a big
selling point of the shuttle system. Now we have this shuttle derived
exploration vehicle and nothing is reusable!


Why is it so hard to understand that maximum payload (a good thing) is
in direct physical and mathematical conflict with reusability (another
good thing)?