At 05:25 PM 2/15/2003 -0800, you wrote:
On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 11:37:30 -0500 (EST), Henry Spencer
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>Note, though, that the original comment was in the context of the
>long-term feasibility of turnaround using only four *man-hours*.  Unless
>your base-cap-refurbishment shop is highly automated, you won't be able to
>do that with ablators.

I missed that, but if I had seen it, I probably would have gaffed it
off...  You're going to space, maybe to orbit.  You're going to have
to do a lot of work _somewhere_...  My goal was to get it off the
flight line.

-R
I don't see why that is a problem for getting the vehicle back in the air with four man-hours of effort -- you would just need more heat shields than vehicles, and a pipelined refurb process. The total man-hours of effort would be larger, but the vehicles could be in the air almost continuously, which is the key to high returns.

John Carmack

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