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The Limey and the Boer went to sea, in a beautiful pea-green boat
So Branson and Musk are competing with each other to go to space? Eesh!
So the Limey and the Boer are going into space while Shuttleless NASA is cruising junk yards looking for pieces of old Saturn V rockets in a forlorn attempt to go back to the Moon and recapture past glory? All while squandering their budgets on global warming and that $150B orbiting white elephant, the ISS? How the mighty have fallen...This is the NADIR of space exploration. |
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The Limey and the Boer went to sea, in a beautiful pea-green boat
On Friday, June 26, 2015 at 2:16:40 AM UTC-6, RichA wrote:
while Shuttleless NASA is cruising junk yards looking for pieces of old Saturn V rockets Actually, something like the Saturn V is more appropriate technology for getting to Mars than the Space Shuttle - which was designed around military needs, and is great as a ferry for the ISS, but which is not terribly relevant beyond LEO. So going from the Shuttle to the Saturn V is not a step back, it would be a step forwards. John Savard |
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The Limey and the Boer went to sea, in a beautiful pea-green boat
On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 07:58:04 -0700 (PDT), Quadibloc
wrote: So going from the Shuttle to the Saturn V is not a step back, it would be a step forwards. I'd say it's neither. Different tools for different jobs. |
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The Limey and the Boer went to sea, in a beautiful pea-green boat
On Friday, 26 June 2015 10:58:05 UTC-4, Quadibloc wrote:
On Friday, June 26, 2015 at 2:16:40 AM UTC-6, RichA wrote: while Shuttleless NASA is cruising junk yards looking for pieces of old Saturn V rockets Actually, something like the Saturn V is more appropriate technology for getting to Mars than the Space Shuttle - which was designed around military needs, and is great as a ferry for the ISS, but which is not terribly relevant beyond LEO. So going from the Shuttle to the Saturn V is not a step back, it would be a step forwards. John Savard See the PBS show on it? They disposed of most of the technology and are scrounging to find it again. No problem with the Saturn V. |
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