From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sat Jul 13 2002 - 23:14:07 MDT
At 10:06 PM 7/13/02 -0700, Spike wrote:
>There is no point in hauling wings and wheels all the way out to the moon,
>where they are useless. A much lighter payload released from the
>shuttle might be taken to the moon.
Hang on, is this true? All the work of designing and building and
road-testing the Orbiters has been done. If the only additional costs
involved in hauling wings and wheel to lunar orbit are some extra fuel
tanks and robot refuelers fired up to LEO, maybe that's cheaper than
starting all over? I assume a LEMish thing would do the dropoff to lunar
surface. Any way to estimate these numbers fairly easily?
Damien Broderick
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