Alex Fraser wrote: > > Lots of good info about the shuttle burn up. With all the talk of NASA I > couldn't help musing about ERPS. > Folks on the list are not actually "there" at NASA and must rely on > what they read in the press and elsewhere. A similar situation exist for > me in that I am not actually "there" on the scene to see how ERPS works, > I must rely on what I read on this list. > So I got to musing on what would happen if you scaled operations at > ERPS to the point where you could actually put a vehicle into space. > What internal factions would hinder and what strengths would shine > through? How exactly on scaling up could ERPS avoid NASA's pitfalls?
Well, to start with, ERPS does not have a design parameter that says that engineering choices must be made to optimize the spreading of large globs of government money around the country as widely as possible. (It's been said that the Shuttle was designed to include products sourced from every congressional district, such that _each_ of the honorable gentlemen of the national legislature might be lobbied with the prospects of new business that approval of the program would bring to some of _his_ constituents.) -dave w _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
