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A real What If? Gemini/LK to the Moon
It would seem that a Gemini lunar mission that used an LK lander would
have been a great, cheap combination. I don't know if EOR or LOR would have been the best architecture, but I don't think this would have needed any more than Saturn IBs and Protons to accomplish. The question is whether this creates an existence proof for an easy return to the Moon soon. Of course, this assumes that a Gemini class spacecraft could be recreated today. |
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On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 10:35:34 -0500, Michael Gallagher
wrote: Sure, you CAN do it. Whether you would WANT to is another matter. Gemini was created as an engineering stopgap between Mercury and Apollo to test out some things needed for Apollo. ....Yes and no. It was also built with MOL in mind as a replacement for the canned Dyna-Soar to placate the Air Farce when McNamara ignorantly canned the project to free up funding for Vietnam that never went there to begin with. Sort of flying two birds with one stone, so to speak. 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 Fri, 20 Feb 2004 00:58:11 -0600, OM
om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org wrote: [Gemini] was also built with MOL in mind as a replacement for the canned Dyna-Soar to placate the Air Farce when McNamara ignorantly canned the project to free up funding for Vietnam that never went there to begin with. Sort of flying two birds with one stone, so to speak. OM I didn't know MOL went that far back. Thanks. ----== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= 19 East/West-Coast Specialized Servers - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
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Michael Gallagher wrote: I didn't know MOL went that far back. Thanks. MOL was going to use a Air Force derivative of Gemini called "Blue Gemini" which allowed the crew to enter the MOL via a hatch in the heat shield. MOL was basically a manned reconnaissance satellite with the crew able to search out and photograph targets of interest on the ground (MOL's other name was KH-10 Dorian) it became apparent during the program that the weight being dedicated to the crew accommodations and life support would be better used in building a larger unmanned reconnaissance satellite, so MOL got canned. The Soviets however built something very much like MOL with their Almaz series of military space stations- they found that we had been right to cancel MOL; not that much of interest was spotted on the ground by the cosmonauts, and the big camera and decreased internal volume compared to a Salyut station made the Almaz very cramped inside; the original plan was for Almaz, like MOL, to carry its crew into space with it in a VA return capsule attached to the nose like the Blue Gemini. Once in orbit another spacecraft, the TKS that became the basis for the Mir add-on modules, would dock to the Almaz and provide living quarters for the crew as well as a second VA return capsule (film return?) to complement the one or two smaller reentry ones already on Almaz. But this required two proton launches to accomplish, so the Soyuz was used to ferry the crew up to the Almaz; which now had no VA module on it. The result was a station with pretty miserable crew accommodations, and Almaz got canceled after three flights (Salyuts 2,3,5) a leftover one was later launched unmanned. The crew found that most of their time was spent on station upkeep, leaving them little time for reconnaissance operations. Pat |
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The crew found that most of their time was spent on station upkeep,
leaving them little time for reconnaissance operations. Pat Sounds like ISS................. |
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