Bryon Daly wrote:
>
> Couldn't Orion be assembled in orbit to avoid the
> atmosphere effects? It certainly would be far far
> more expensive to do that way, but if the
> atmospheric detonations are the biggest hitch...
>
The whole point of this Orion thing is to put
stuff into orbit. Going from ground to orbit is
harder than going from orbit to escape speed
[1st order approximation: two times harder]
Alberto Monteiro
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