From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Tue Jul 20 1999 - 20:29:40 MDT
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
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.
When you say "the right booster" are you suggesting some profoundly
huge liquids, strapped to the external tank? spike
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