From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sat Jul 13 2002 - 21:12:43 MDT
At 04:46 PM 7/13/02 -0700, Robert wrote:
>What is
>the feasibility of launching a mini-external tank, fueling it
>with resources launched on smaller vehicles -- a Delta IV has about
>25% the payload capacity of a Saturn V -- and then sending a shuttle
>off to the moon?
But isn't the Orbiter a lifting body that needs an atmosphere to land?
(Although I've heard that it has the aerodynamic properties of a brick.) Or...
>An open question is whether we would need to redesign
>a LEM equivalent from scratch or whether someone has had the foresight
>to preserve that design.
...were you thinking of putting a LEM in the cargo bay?
Damien Broderick
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