Re: [ERPS] reusable capsule

[Aleta Jackson]

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Gentlefolk,

<< NASA's not used to thinking in those terms, but there's no particular
reason why capsules can't be reusable...>>
NASA isn't the only game in town.

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/shuttle-03r2.html

the U.S. first reused a space capsule 36 years ago! The capsule
used on Gemini 2, an unmanned 3400-km suborbital test flight in
Jan. 1965, was reused for an 8900-km suborbital flight in Nov. 1966 --
the only flight ever made in the later-cancelled Manned Orbiting
Laboratory program.
Uh huh. I worked on that program! Remember it well. Also known as the 
Blue Space Station, beause it was to be run by Air Force. Ah, what heady 
days... ;->

Aleta

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