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Old September 1st 03, 05:51 PM
TKalbfus
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Default Shuttle dumped within 5 years

What the article fails to mention is that the 2008 date is for the unmanned
CRV version. CTV would fly much later.

I think Shuttle will be around till at least 2012. There just isn't anything
else on the path to production that can handle the up- and down-mass of
Shuttle.


And it spends the next 4 years doing what? Isn't it cheaper to develop a life
support system for the CRV than it is to launch an empty shuttle with 4 crew
members aboard? So I guess the CRV is exposed to the vacuum of space and it
will take 4 years to develop a technology to seal it so that it will hold an
atmosphere within. And the technology for removing CO2 from the atmosphere and
storing compressed oxegen long enough for the up and down flight have yet to be
developed for this spacecraft and its going to take a further ambitious 4 year
project so that people can actually ride in this spacecraft, so in the meantime
they'll have to use expensive empty shuttles for crew transfers. Is ther
something wrong with this picture?

Tom