Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!strath-cs!str-va!cadp13 From: cadp13@vaxa.strath.ac.uk (Theora Jones, In Person!) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: best of all worlds Message-ID: <1990Oct15.110556.2278@vaxa.strath.ac.uk> Date: 15 Oct 90 11:05:56 GMT References: <10265.2708917a@pbs.org> Organization: Strathclyde University VAX Cluster Lines: 35 In article , Mike.McManus@FtCollins.NCR.com (Mike McManus) writes: > In article <10265.2708917a@pbs.org> pstinson@pbs.org writes: >> We could design the next generation Apollo as a lunar taxi that would fit >> inside a Shuttle. > .... >> For safety reasons it would be carried into orbit without fuel. The fuel and >> propulsion module would be launched by a Titan IV. Assembly would take place >> at a modest Space Operations Center (SOC) as once outlined before space >> station Freedom was choosen. > (lots of stuff deleted, to save bandwidth :) Can somebody give me a good (ie not "because it's there") reason why we should be so desperate to go back to the moon ???? I would think that the moon has very few advantages over the earth scientifically, I mean that gravity isn't >that< much less :). Surely our money wuld be better spent on an orbiting free-flyer like Freedom? ( or perhaps on some form of manufacturing plant, to make semi/super conductors in a microgravity, 100% purity environment ?) Ian PS> anybody out there got any info on Columbus (the ESA module, due to be added to Freedom sometime in 1995(HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!) ) PPS> could we perhaps organise some sort of militia to round up and reeducate these people who keep calling the space station "FRED" ???, oh yes, you know that Fisher-Price (the report on the Freedom station) is alo a kiddies toy manufacturer here in the UK? -- ================================================================================ Theora Jones Strathclyde University, SCOTLAND || SUPPORT NASA!!!!!!!! CADP13@uk.ac.strath.vaxa (somewhere on JANET) || (someone's got to) "It's not the wrong way round! you are :)" || (c)1990 Theora Productions ================================================================================