Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!apple!tomas
From: tomas@Apple.COM (Tom Taylor)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Heavylift Boosters
Message-ID: <18131@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 3 Oct 88 16:25:24 GMT
References: <28624@think.UUCP> <1074@bucket.UUCP>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <1074@bucket.UUCP> leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) writes:
>In article <28624@think.UUCP> craig@think.COM (Craig Stanfill) writes:
><Of course, it is a littly looney putting men on top of solid-fueled 
><boosters.
>
>I wonder if Alan Shepard (Mercury-Redstone) and Gagarin (early Soviet
>boosters were solid fueled too, as I recall) would agree with you?

I looked it up this weekend...
The Redstone booster uses liquid oxygen, ethel alcohol, and water as
its fuel.

Tom Taylor
Development Systems Group