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I'm going back in time to fix the space program. Y'all got any requests?
On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 08:38:34 -0500, "Christopher M. Jones"
wrote: Or, back even further, rebuff Batista and install a democratic regime in Cuba in the early 1950s or mid 1940s (which would be my preferred choice). ....And install Desi Arnaz as a puppet dictator more in tune with the necessities of running a country as a successful business. OM -- "No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society - General George S. Patton, Jr |
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On Sat, 05 Jul 2003 16:47:08 -0600, OM
om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org wrote: On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 08:38:34 -0500, "Christopher M. Jones" wrote: Or, back even further, rebuff Batista and install a democratic regime in Cuba in the early 1950s or mid 1940s (which would be my preferred choice). ...And install Desi Arnaz as a puppet dictator more in tune with the necessities of running a country as a successful business. OM That would make Lucy the Evita of Cuba. "Luuuccccyyy! You have some 'splaining to do!" ;^) Rusty Barton - Antelope, California -- Visit my Titan 1 ICBM website at: http://www.geocities.com/titan_1_missile |
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On Sat, 05 Jul 2003 18:21:47 -0700, Rusty Barton
wrote: ...And install Desi Arnaz as a puppet dictator more in tune with the necessities of running a country as a successful business. That would make Lucy the Evita of Cuba. "Luuuccccyyy! You have some 'splaining to do!" ;^) "Fred! What did Loocy an' Ethyl do?!?" "Ricky, you know how women are. They were foolin' around on that missile launcher, and Lucy got her purse caught on that lever, and..." "Ay caramba! That missile is headed for Miami! Looocy! This is so reedeeculous!" "Waaaaaaaah!" OM -- "No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society - General George S. Patton, Jr |
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I'm going back in time to fix the space program. Y'all got any requests?
"Len" wrote in message om... Unclaimed Mysteries wrote in message ... 1). Don't form NASA. Some stuff could have fixed on june 7th, 1962. That was the date when moon landing method was set to be lunar orbit rendezvous. It was this day when to much of a surprise for everyone, von Braun announced his support for LOR at the meeting at Marshall. Had it been EOR as von Braun and his crew initially wanted, it could possibly have kicked off some real space infrastructure. On orbit mission staging, refuelling and construction would perhaps have become routine and opened up markets for many LEO services. -kert |
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"Kaido Kert" wrote in message ...
"Len" wrote in message om... Unclaimed Mysteries wrote in message ... 1). Don't form NASA. Some stuff could have fixed on june 7th, 1962. That was the date when moon landing method was set to be lunar orbit rendezvous. It was this day when to much of a surprise for everyone, von Braun announced his support for LOR at the meeting at Marshall. Had it been EOR as von Braun and his crew initially wanted, it could possibly have kicked off some real space infrastructure. On orbit mission staging, refuelling and construction would perhaps have become routine and opened up markets for many LEO services. -kert I agree completely that a decision to go EOR would have made a huge difference. However, I still maintain that the booby trap was set with the decision to make a superagency that would not allow competition or dissent. Competition and possible dissent is the real way to curb runaway bureaucracies from exercising too much power. The 1973 Procurement Commission studies focused on competition--especially at the exploratory level, but continuing throughout the operational level--as being the key way to fix the procurement system that McNamara permanently broke. The NASA Manned Space Flight mafia is just another example of the mess that an all-powerful bureaucracy can compile. Best regards, Len (Cormier) PanAero, Inc. and Third Millennium Aerospace, Inc. ( http://www.tour2space.com ) |
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I'm going back in time to fix the space program. Y'all got any requests?
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Kaido Kert wrote: Some stuff could have fixed on june 7th, 1962. That was the date when moon landing method was set to be lunar orbit rendezvous. It was this day when to much of a surprise for everyone, von Braun announced his support for LOR at the meeting at Marshall. Don't forget that the reason LOR gradually won people over, climaxing with von Braun, was that the problems of EOR -- specifically, flying a lunar landing with the EOR craft -- looked harder and harder as they were examined more closely. There was a *reason* why LOR won; it wasn't just someone's whim. Had it been EOR as von Braun and his crew initially wanted, it could possibly have kicked off some real space infrastructure. I really doubt it. The most likely EOR approach, given availability of the Saturn V (*) and Apollo's tight schedule, was simply docking the spacecraft to a TLI stage in orbit. There's no infrastructure in that. (* Earlier concepts -- including earlier LOR concepts! -- envisioned more substantial orbital assembly, inevitable with the smaller Saturns. If you want to start orbital operations and infrastructure, the key is not to get EOR chosen over LOR, but to get von Braun to conclude that Apollo would have to be based on Saturn I derivatives, that the larger concepts were too big a jump and would take too long to develop. Plausible arguments could be made for that; the Saturn V ended up larger than most of the original Nova concepts, which were rejected for that very reason.) On orbit mission staging, refuelling and construction would perhaps have become routine and opened up markets for many LEO services. Maybe. The trick to opening up markets for LEO services is not "markets" but "opening" -- you don't open any markets so long as everything is a government project. -- MOST launched 1015 EDT 30 June, separated 1046, | Henry Spencer first ground-station pass 1651, all nominal! | |
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