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From: AEGQC@CUNYVM (Audra G.)
Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Translunar/interplanetary shuttle?
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Date: 28 Nov 90 23:29:44 GMT
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center
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The latest issue of _Analog_ has an article describing how the shuttle
could be adapted as a moon ship.  Apparently if the ship either carried
two extra boosters or was refueled in orbit, it would be able to reach
and return from lunar orbit, using a LEM-like craft carried in the cargo
bay to get people to the surface of the Moon and back.  If this is indeed
doable (and the article had a lot of mathematics), I would like to ask if,
if still more tanks were added in orbit, the shuttle could be used to reach
further celestial bodies as well.  Any thoughts? --Shangti