Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Why 3 SSME's?
Message-ID: <1989Oct12.020022.7717@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <538.252A3A3B@mamab.FIDONET.ORG> <4900@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 89 02:00:22 GMT

In article <4900@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM> robina@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM (Robin Adams) writes:
>	1.  The addition of a small escape rocket to get them out of the
>            immediate area.

When one is talking about a multi-ton crew cabin, there is no such thing
as a "small" escape rocket that will get them out of the immediate area.
The Apollo escape tower, with a rather smaller cabin to lift, weighed
four tons.
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