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From: bturner@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Bill Turner)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: QUESTION: Shuttle round trips to the moon?
Message-ID: <101420003@hpcvlx.HP.COM>
Date: 12 Jan 89 18:57:18 GMT
References: <14549@oberon.USC.EDU>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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> I initially laughed at the question, but if this response truly indicates a 
> feasible method of getting the shuttle into lunar orbit, then the question of 
> the lunar landing is now easy:  put the small lunar lander in the cargo bay and 
> leave the shuttle in lunar orbit.
> 
> I'm now fascinated by this....

Seems like a waste of fuel to send the whole shuttle on the trip, when
all you really need is the cargo bay.  Better perhaps to use the shuttle to
shuttle materials to LEO and send that to the moon.

--Bill Turner