Re: shuttle breaks up on re-entry

From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Mon Feb 03 2003 - 00:19:29 MST

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Mike Lorrey wrote:
>
> Thanks for the correction. I might ask if the new paraffin based SRB
> fuels are nastier than the kerosene? Kerosene is also dirtier than
> burning methane, by the by... it's essentially souped up diesel fuel.
>
> Don't know what the tonnage comparison is either....

Careful about overgeneralizing from experience with
engines and furnaces. When mixed with LOX, it doesnt
much matter if you are burning kerosene, octane,
diesel fuel, whatever. If mixed stoichiometrically,
the output is all carbon dioxide and water. spike

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