From: paul@i2.to
Date: Wed Jul 21 1999 - 12:40:00 MDT
On Tue, 20 July 1999, Spike Jones wrote:
> paul@i2.to wrote:
>
>>Completely unnecessary. With the right booster, the shuttle without *any*
>> modifications could easily reach lunar orbit. ...
>
> Paul, is this *really* you who wrote this, or an impostor?
>Hand over the ransom note.... {8^D
I currently have the real Paul tied and gagged in the
corner! :-)
> If you take the shuttle in its current form, make the entire payload
> into more fuel and tanks, you *still* would be unable to get the
> delta vee necessary to take it to the moon. Nor would you
> want to.
Yikes Spike! Certainly not. What I was suggesting is that
you strap some kind of inter-orbital transfer booster on
after it has achieved LEO. The delta-V necessary to get to
LEO is already (4/5?) the amount necessary to get to lunar
orbit and back. So I'd imagine these inter-orbital boosters
would not have to be nearly as big or dramatic as the
solid-rocket boosters used on takeoff.
Cheers,
Paul
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