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Subject: Re: Shuttle trips to the Moon
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Date: 18 Jan 89 20:25:00 GMT
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Written  9:49 am  Jan 16, 1989 by doc.ic.ac.uk!brwk in cpe:sci.space.shuttle
>NASA are also nowhere near
>up to the turn-around required to launch a second shuttle in time to
>pick up the returning crew.

But is the problem "turn-around time" or "time between launches"?
In other words if we waited an extra month to allow two orbiters to be
immediately behind each other in terms of the road to readiness, how
long would they have to wait between launches (readying the launchpad,
rolling out the second shuttle, doing whatever HAS to be done on the
launchpad, anything else I'm too naive to know about).

Or does "turn-around time" refer to the launch system rather than
the orbiter?

			Paul Chamberlain
			Computer Product Engineering, Tandy Corp.
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