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From: zweig@m.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: shuttle to the Moon
Message-ID: <22000013@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 13 Jan 89 03:02:00 GMT
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Nf-From: m.cs.uiuc.edu!zweig    Jan 12 21:02:00 1989


	Does anyone have the ratio of the mass of the shuttle (vehicle
only) to that of one of the Apollo landers? It seems like all the mass
of wings and cargo bay and heat-resistent tiles and stuff make the
shuttle too heavy to be worth sending. Much (most?) of its mass is
oriented toward landing in atmosphere without burning up, deploying
payload and keeping a relatively large crew (i.e. mission specialists)
comfortable -- extra baggage you wouldn't want to lug with you on a
lunar mission.


Johnny Zweig
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Department of Computer Science
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