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Shuttle program extension?
"Rand Simberg" wrote in message
... On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:57:27 GMT, in a place far, far away, Brian Thorn made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 15:26:00 GMT, h (Rand Simberg) wrote: It has to be, because he doesn't have billions to pay for it. Using Genesis as a baseline, it will be. Right. So failure isn't a possibility then. Good to know. I didn't say that. I just said that if it's built, it will be cheap, and that there is good reason to think that it will be built, since his prototypes have been successful. I don't know... its a long way from a prototype to a real, operational spacecraft. They've built Echo 1, but we need Telstar. Prototype or not, Genesis II is a real, operational spacecraft, and it's been operating for many months now. http://www.bigelowaerospace.com/genesis_II/ All it lacks, AFAIK, is ECLSS. Add that, scale it up, and you have a space habitat. Add propulsion, and it can co-orbit with ISS. Bigelow has already issued a $23M contract for that to Aerojet. Wow. And this morning I had a great breakfast of toast, ham and eggs, if I had only had some ham and eggs. Glad to know it'll so simple and trivial. -- Greg Moore Ask me about lily, an RPI based CMC. |
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