RE: SPACE: Loss of the Saturn V

From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Mon Sep 08 2003 - 00:30:15 MDT

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    > 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

    How big is he?

    Emlyn

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