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Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
http://www.russiatoday.com/Top_News/...iolkovsky.html
An awesome three minute video documentary from Russia Today. http://webpages.charter.net/tsiolkovsky/ |
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Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Some interesting documents, but I fear a bit pie in the sky for the real
world. What is the actual limiting feature of trying to run Shuttle for less? I'd envisage a couple of new vehicles. Surely we could do better at preventing damage from debris in a new design. Brian -- Brian Gaff - Note:- In order to reduce spam, any email without 'Brian Gaff' in the display name may be lost. Blind user, so no pictures please! "kT" wrote in message ... http://www.russiatoday.com/Top_News/...iolkovsky.html An awesome three minute video documentary from Russia Today. http://webpages.charter.net/tsiolkovsky/ |
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Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Brian Gaff wrote:
Some interesting documents, but I fear a bit pie in the sky for the real world. The directory of documents : http://webpages.charter.net/tsiolkovsky/ What is the actual limiting feature of trying to run Shuttle for less? I'd envisage a couple of new vehicles. Surely we could do better at preventing damage from debris in a new design. The ISS is the new space shuttle. All we need to do now is get to it. The problem is that politicians and NASA are risk averse, and they will want to back up to the EELVs and COTS vehicles for the interim, with no real technology development to improve them incrementally towards reusability and decreasing costs. Right now conventional ELVs are INCREASING in costs, and that must be reversed. My proposal involves using things like tanks, attitude control, the entire upper stages, engines, etc as basic infrastructure for space ports, space hotels, space ships and space stations, observatories, etc, such that nearly seventy five percent of orbital mass can be recovered intact, in a form which is already usable in low Earth orbit and beyond almost unmodified. Compare my scenario to ISRU, where it will cost a trillion dollars to get people to planets, set up energy, mining, refining, manufacturing, fabrication and assembly of spacecraft which already exist in a fully finished form, in space where they have already been retrieved from a deep gravity well with abundant natural, industrial and human resources. The finished relevant documents : http://webpages.charter.net/Commercial_Space.pdf http://webpages.charter.net/21st_Century_Space.pdf http://webpages.charter.net/A_New_Direction.pdf Brian |
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