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Which Apollo landing site would you revisit?
Since we're comparing the safety of the Apollo and shuttle vehicles, I think we need to realize that Apollo probably wasn't as safe as its flight record might indicate. It's true that, the Fire aside (which was a result of a lot of developmental factors and the unforgiving aspects of Apollo was also the first vehicle designed to take man to another planetary body. The shuttle was 4th vehicle designed for manned operations in LEO, although it was designed as the first space truck. mercury, gemini, apollo, shuttle. |
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Which Apollo landing site would you revisit?
In news:Hallerb typed:
Since we're comparing the safety of the Apollo and shuttle vehicles, I think we need to realize that Apollo probably wasn't as safe as its flight record might indicate. It's true that, the Fire aside (which was a result of a lot of developmental factors and the unforgiving aspects of Apollo was also the first vehicle designed to take man to another planetary body. The shuttle was 4th vehicle designed for manned operations in LEO, although it was designed as the first space truck. mercury, gemini, apollo, shuttle. Here we go again, Bob. You neglected to add the word "American." Otherwise you're looking like an ignorant ass. On the other hand... -- Mike __________________________________________________ ______ "Colorado Ski Country, USA" Come often, Ski hard, Spend *lots* of money, Then leave as quickly as you can. |
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Here we go again, Bob. You neglected to add the word "American." Well it was obviously american since thats what were talking about. American launch vehicles incremental improvements changes between models. I hope everyone realizes that If I were saying GO NASA LETS FLY others would ignore my grammar and spelling, and issues like this. I am not one of the boys here. Thats fine BTW I am more interested in a good space program than the biased folks here. Many here depend directly or indirectly on NASA for jobs. Someone saying lets fly tomorrow may be hurting becauise they sell stuff to tourists attracted to launches. Or family may be huirting for same reason. As a retired PAD rat at the apollo one memorial service said. FOR US THIS IS A JOBS PROGRAM. He was one of the workers who disassembled Apoloo one after the fire |
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"Hallerb" wrote in message ... | | Apollo was also the first vehicle designed to take man to | another planetary body. Be that as it may, it was also designed with a deadline in mind. | The shuttle was 4th vehicle designed for manned operations | in LEO, although it was designed as the first space truck. The shuttle shares some superfluous similarities with its forebears. The problem of getting to the moon (excluding the lunar lander and associated rendezvous problems) is not that much of a stretch over operations in low earth orbit. The problem of creating a REUSABLE spacecraft of that size is awesome. The Apollo CSM was a logical extension of Gemini technology, which was a logical extension of Mercury technology. The space shuttle was a major leap beyond all of that, despite the fact that it is limited to orbital operations. And with that leap comes a lot of uncertainty that can manifest itself in failure. You cannot unilaterally equate complexity of the vehicle with the distance of the destination. -- | The universe is not required to conform | Jay Windley to the expectations of the ignorant. | webmaster @ clavius.org |
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Which Apollo landing site would you revisit?
"Hallerb" wrote in message ... | | Thats fine BTW I am more interested in a good space program | than the biased folks here. Consider that people disagree with you because your conclusions are ill-founded, not because some speculated bias compels them to. | Many here depend directly or indirectly on NASA for jobs. Not me. Even if it were otherwise, the correctness of your conclusions is not proved by the shortcomings of others. If I'm standing in a pile of dog ****, and a blind man comes up and tells me that I'm standing in a pile of dog ****, my telling him he's blind doesn't make the dog **** go away. -- | The universe is not required to conform | Jay Windley to the expectations of the ignorant. | webmaster @ clavius.org |
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