To: Destro
It is time to start using disposable-reliable space vehicles and open up space to private industry. Open space to private industry yes .... yes disposables, absolutely NOT.
We should have an SSTO spaceplane to replace the shuttle. And nuclear rockets for ultra heavy payloads to go into orbit.
4 posted on
02/01/2003 8:07:02 PM PST by
Centurion2000
(The question is not whether you're paranoid, but whether you're paranoid enough.)
To: Centurion2000; Privatize NASA
Listen-wishing for SSTO spaceplane to work is not the same as having it work. Nor do I care to pay for its development with a generation of testing. Disposable rockets are economical-and SAFER and WORK!!!
9 posted on
02/01/2003 8:12:50 PM PST by
Destro
To: Centurion2000
nuclear rocketsSounds like a bad idea....
especially after seeing what happened yesterday.
To: Centurion2000
>>We should have an SSTO spaceplane to replace the shuttle<<
The same Congress that cancelled the SST crippled the shuttle.
This disaster has been thirty years in the making. And even more of a disaster than the loss of our heroes is the technological stagnation that has come with STS.
We now must make a huge, huge investment to restart R&D that was abandoned in the 1960s.
Or maybe China will sell it to us?
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