Boeing Crew Capsule Concept

Losing no time (probably had this proposal on the back
burner for a long time), Boeing reveals their concept for
a commercial crew capsule. Suprise (not!), it's another
Apollo clone.


http://tinyurl.com/ygpyp7e


--Damon

"Damon Hill" wrote in message
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Losing no time (probably had this proposal on the back
burner for a long time), Boeing reveals their concept for
a commercial crew capsule. Suprise (not!), it's another
Apollo clone.


http://tinyurl.com/ygpyp7e

No surprise there. Why throw away the work they did on their previous
proposals? That and sticking with an Apollo shaped reentry vehicle is
definitely the conservative (i.e. cheaper) approach.

Jeff
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Damon Hill wrote:
Losing no time (probably had this proposal on the back
burner for a long time), Boeing reveals their concept for
a commercial crew capsule. Suprise (not!), it's another
Apollo clone.

Not sure why anyone would expect something that
doesn't roughly resemble an Apollo capsule. We're
talking about something that goes on top of what's
almost certainly a long cylindrical object and becomes
"the pointy end," while at the same time has to be
of a shape that's going to permit safe re-entry.
Pretty much says you're going to be looking at
some sort of squat cone, which may have some
additional cylindrical extension "behind" or "below"
it. And bingo!, there ya go...

Bob M.

On Feb 9, 2:25*pm, Damon Hill wrote:
Losing no time (probably had this proposal on the back
burner for a long time), Boeing reveals their concept for
a commercial crew capsule. *Suprise (not!), it's another
Apollo clone.

http://tinyurl.com/ygpyp7e

--Damon

They are just using the CEV and OSP work they did

Is there any reason why they cannot make the thing slightly oval? The crew
could then be less squashed surely?
Brian

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"Damon Hill" wrote in message
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Losing no time (probably had this proposal on the back
burner for a long time), Boeing reveals their concept for
a commercial crew capsule. Suprise (not!), it's another
Apollo clone.


http://tinyurl.com/ygpyp7e


--Damon

On Feb 10, 6:49�am, "Brian Gaff" wrote:
Is there any reason why they cannot make the thing slightly oval? The crew
could then be less squashed surely?
Brian

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Losing no time (probably had this proposal on the back
burner for a long time), Boeing reveals their concept for
a commercial crew capsule. �Suprise (not!), it's another
Apollo clone.

http://tinyurl.com/ygpyp7e

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oval would effect re entry location. so oval is not good.

however apollo had just a bit of its heat shields center off to allow
a little rentry position control