Xref: utzoo sci.space:15450 sci.space.shuttle:4038 sci.astro:5676 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!wugate!uunet!bfmny0!tneff From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle,sci.astro Subject: Re: Future Space Missions Message-ID: <14903@bfmny0.UU.NET> Date: 12 Nov 89 05:55:44 GMT References: <2086@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> <5569@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> <1989Nov12.001720.6482@utzoo.uucp> Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) Followup-To: sci.space Lines: 17 Summary: Expires: Sender: Followup-To: In article <1989Nov12.001720.6482@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: >The only available-now launcher that could do a better job on Cassini >would be Energia. The Soviets have no superstitious fear of cryogenic >upper stages ... Whoa, neither do we, if we're talking upper stages on unmanned boosters. The knock on Shuttle/Centaur was taking that cryogenic upper stage up on the flatbed of a human crewed truck! It was the astronaut office, not armchair critics, that nicknamed it the "Death Star". Who got it cancelled? A couple of guys named Young and Crippen... Let's take bets on how eager the Soviets would be to take a Centaur up inside Buran. Of course THEY could do it unmanned anyway. And of course THEY don't even need to since they have plenty of booster power. -- "UNIX should be used :: Tom Neff or as an adjective." -- AT&T :: ...uunet!bfmny0!tneff (UUCP only)