Xref: utzoo sci.space:26071 sci.space.shuttle:6785 Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!exodus!vygr.Eng.Sun.COM!mae From: mae@vygr.Eng.Sun.COM (Mike Ekberg, Sun {DSGG.DGDO.Mid-Range Graphics.Egret(GS)} MS 8-04) Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: space news from Oct 6 AW&ST Message-ID: <3949@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 4 Dec 90 22:39:01 GMT References: <1990Dec4.025945.15482@zoo.toronto.edu> Sender: news@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM Followup-To: sci.space Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca. Lines: 35 Note the two completely opposite development approaches of the Soviet and NASA space programs. (Here the Soviets are still re-using stuff >10 years(?) old) In article <1990Dec4.025945.15482@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: >Almaz is a heavily modified Salyut space-station >core with long radar arrays along its sides. > and ... (We are building yet another from scratch design) >NASA orders hiring freeze at space-station contractors, probably in >anticipation of Yet Another Redesign -- largely inevitable given the >likely budget cuts. > >Planetary Soviety invitation-only meeting to "critique" the current space >station concludes that the current design is not viable even if nothing >goes wrong with the shuttle, citing persistent reliance on unrealistic >shuttle launch rates, inflexibility due to trying to meet too many users' >needs, and inadequate consideration of alternatives. (On the other hand, >some of the attendees commented that the deck was stacked: the choice >of participants seemed to be deliberately aimed at such a conclusion.) > >Marshall is looking at the possibility of dividing the two big US modules >into four, making it possible to launch them fully equipped. > -- # mike (sun!mae), M/S 8-04 "The people are the water, the army are the fish" Mao Tse-tung Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com