"Bryon Daly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked
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...
Yes, and indeed, in the 1960s, Werner Von Braun and others suggested
just that. Saturn rockets would lift the parts to orbit. That
proposal died when more senior people at NASA decided that NASA had no
mandate for crewed exploration of the solar system, just a mandate to
send a few men to the moon.
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Robert J. Chassell Rattlesnake Enterprises
http://www.rattlesnake.com GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8
http://www.teak.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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