[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : >This brings back a thought I have frequently: we should separate the >crew transport mission from the cargo transport mission. The crew >shouldn't fly a huge complex vehicle with all its failure modes, and a >trash hauler shouldn't have to be man rated. > >-R >
The other thought that keeps running through my mind, as I drove home this afternoon, that I could not fit into my other somewhat emotional post was re entry modes. Vehicals of the DCX or Pogo class, have to cary enough fuel for re-entry right? That they use the thrust to counteract the gravitational returns? I have never liked ablative methods. Yet they seem to be the best. Interesting that here 35 years later we have made so little progress. And I was at Edwards to watch the origional re-entry. If anything I was shoked that Columbia was not in the air and space museum or a lawn orniment in Huston. It was wierd to tell my parents this was the same shuttle we saw land back in the early 80s. At least paramount was smart enough to cut from one of the Star Trek films, Shatner parafoiling in from space. Now where did I put my copy of "Dark Star?" Planet surfing anyone? -jP _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
