Re: SPACE: Beyond Apollo

From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Sat Apr 15 2000 - 00:04:09 MDT


Robert Bradbury wrote:

> > Sad but true in a lot of places, but I still think this would be easier to
> > do than making a whole new launch system.
>
> I would have to think though, that scaling up the Arienne 5 or
> getting the Energia to be more reliable would be a cheaper approach
> than recreating the Saturn 5.

Getting Energia to be more reliable? Just use the existing Russian
rockets. The Proton is a hell of a good launcher as is. The commies
do build a good low-cost space rocket [damn em]. spike {8-]



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