Thread: Moral Equivalent Of A Space Program
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Old February 15th 06, 02:31 PM posted to sci.space.moderated,sci.space.policy
Fred J. McCall
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"Jorge R. Frank" wrote:

:"Fred J. McCall" wrote in
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: h (Rand Simberg) wrote:
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::On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 12:29:04 -0500, in a place far, far away, "Will
::McLean" made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
::such a way as to indicate that:
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:: The CEV is sized to carry up to six, and the shuttle can't carry
:: anything like fifty thousand pounds of payload to ISS.
::
:: I wasn't thinking ISS per se, just LEO. But it can still carry a lot.
:: And bring it back, which CEV will be unable to do.
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::The CEV should be able to bring back a fair amount unmanned, although
::not as much as the shuttle.
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::Nowhere near as much, and only in small pieces.
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: How much stuff do we REALLY need to bring back like that? How much
: have we brought back in the past, other than the odd satellite or two?
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:Failed station components, like the CMGs, so we can learn why they failed
:and fix the problem in the next batch.

And they're not all that big. Roughly the size of a washing machine.

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