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From: boley@ingr.com (Kirk Boley)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: TITAN 4
Summary: Saturn V lift capability
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Date: 23 Jun 89 17:19:30 GMT
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> In article <4301.24986D0D@stjhmc.fidonet.org> Brian.Crawford@p12.f15.n114.z1.fidonet.org (Brian Crawford) writes:
> >How does this compare with the SATURN V ?
> 
> According to Scientific American, March 89, it will deliver 40 Kpounds 
> to LEO, and about 12 Kpounds to geostationary. I don't recall Saturn V,
> but I'm sure it was considerably more. The shuttle does about 55 or so
> to LEO. A Proton about 42/8 and an Ariane 5 about 43/15. All numbers
> from the same source. The dumb units too :-)
> 
	If I remember these numbers correctly, the Saturn V would lift
90Kpounds to the moon, and 75Kpounds to Mars. These figures are from an
old World Book Encyclopedia (1967), so I don't know how accurate they are.
The article didn't say anything about how much Saturn V would lift to LEO
or Geostationary, but a Saturn V lifted Skylab to LEO, and I think that
Skylab is still the biggest object ever lifted (maybe not by now).
	It always pisses me off when I think about NASA and the U.S.
government letting Skylab re-enter. I don't know what kind of shape it was
in, but it seems like (with a little refurb) we could be using it right now
as a platform for future space projects. Maybe I'm wrong.
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