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Orbiting fuel depot concept
"Jeff Findley" wrote:
"Greg D. Moore (Strider)" wrote in message om... "Jeff Findley" wrote in message ... "Pat Flannery" wrote in message ... Derek Lyons wrote: Which fails to explain why non American fanboys also love Soyuz and hate Shuttle, and why American fanboys (who quite often decry NASA's and the public's aversion to risk) love Soyuz and hate Shuttle. I'll say one thing for both Soyuz and Progress - they launch on the day they are planned to launch on a hell of a lot more often than the Shuttle ever has, with today's scrub being another good example of that. It's not a all-weather spacecraft, it's a fair-weather spacecraft at best... and given any sort of requirement for getting something into LEO reliably on a fixed schedule, it's pretty much pointless to rely on the Shuttle to get it there. Oh no, that's Soyuz launcher fanboy talk Pat! Just because the Russians launch on time doesn't make it better than the shuttle. Clearly you're biased. ;-) The last Soyuz spacecraft launched and the last shuttle launched both make it to ISS, so that's something. On the other hand, I'll take my odds of landing in the right place over on-time launch. :-) I'll give you that rather than try to claim it doesn't matter like Derek did by claiming that launch schedules (and therefore docking schedules for ISS) don't matter. Had I claimed they didn't matter, you'd have a point. D. -- Touch-twice life. Eat. Drink. Laugh. http://derekl1963.livejournal.com/ -Resolved: To be more temperate in my postings. Oct 5th, 2004 JDL |
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Orbiting fuel depot concept
"Derek Lyons" wrote in message
... "Jeff Findley" wrote: I'll give you that rather than try to claim it doesn't matter like Derek did by claiming that launch schedules (and therefore docking schedules for ISS) don't matter. Had I claimed they didn't matter, you'd have a point. You may not have, but it did come across that way. -- Greg Moore Ask me about lily, an RPI based CMC. |
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