Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!killer!rcj
From: rcj@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Robert Johnson)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: QUESTION: Shuttle round trips to the moon?
Message-ID: <6745@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Date: 11 Jan 89 00:19:41 GMT
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Reply-To: rcj@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Robert Johnson)
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Well, in a word, no.  There is a posibility that the shuttle could 
get into lunar orbit if it was supplied with fuel from an external
tank (just launch a tank up there on the end of a Titan and have an EVA 
to mate the two craft).  But, once the shuttle got into lunar orbit, 
it couldn't land too well!  The only way for a shuttle to land is like
an airplane, and there is no atmosphere on the moon, thus there is no
lift for the wings.

      Robert C. Johnson