Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!dd2f+ From: dd2f+@andrew.cmu.edu (Daniel Alexander Davis) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: New Space SHuttle Message-ID: Date: 27 Aug 89 01:41:09 GMT References: <900.24E64901@mcastl.fidonet.org> <17125@ut-emx.UUCP>, <981@corpane.UUCP> Organization: Class of '91, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 39 In-Reply-To: <981@corpane.UUCP> In message <1521@corpane.UUCP>, John Sparks writes: >In article <17125@ut-emx.UUCP> wastoid@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Feulner ... Matthew >Feulner) writes: >>In article <900.24E64901@mcastl.fidonet.org> Terry.S.@mcastl.fidonet.org >>(Terry S.) writes: >>> Also, has NASA or any other space agency released any plans of the craft >>> they intend to use to get to Mars? Would it most likely be like >>> out Shuttles, or more like the bird that landed on the moon? Apollo... >> ^^^^^^^^ >Where'd that US space plane go? Maybe we could send refueling stations out >first for in flight re-fueling. And send supplies in the refueling stations and >at Mars, so the Astronauts don't have to carry everything with them. A Spaceplane would be a very good thing to get off Mars surface with, but it would have to be designed to fly in Mars' atmosphere, so it could only be tested during the mission. However, a space plane could be carried by some other, more capable craft, and then the space plane could be used when scooting around to the moons and to Mars itself. Would someone direct me to a good source of information on the spaceplane? What it can do, and when it will be ready to do it? (This being very important). Trees talk happy to me, for I am the Hairy Cherub of Christmass, Santa Claus. But my gifts are a pun you, and are no clause for alarm. Dan.