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From: demers@SRC.Honeywell.COM (Robert DeMers)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: best of all worlds
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Date: 11 Oct 90 13:56:10 GMT
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Of the ideas that I have seen so far on regular access to the moon, only
one has dealt (briefly) with the problem of maintenance.  This seems like a
pretty weak point in the whole scheme.

Current and foreseeable space technology will require continual
maintenance to stay operational.  In this respect I am talking about manned
vehicles, not small probes.  Shuttle experience and the Fisher-Price report
on the space station indicate that we could not keep a reusable orbital
transfer vehicle or moon lander in operation long enough to justify being
called reusable.