From: Spike (spike66@comcast.net)
Date: Sun Sep 07 2003 - 21:23:16 MDT
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From: matus
>Zubrin's relatively simple STS-derived booster
>looks like a hell of a good idea...spike
I had not heard of this idea, yet another excellent one from Zubrin.
Michael Dickey
The Case for Mars, first edition, page 62 and following.
Zubrin's Case for Mars is about the most well thought-out
treatment I have ever read on the topic. It has nearly
every good idea, but I was slightly disappointed that he
did not mention using small people, an old favorite
notion of mine. When I discussed it with him in person
he was dismissive of the idea. I never did get him
to recognize that the mass of the entire ship scales
as the cube of the linear dimension of the crew, even if
you assume starting with a shuttle C or shuttle Z, or an
Ares. spike
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