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From: tif@cpe.UUCP
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Shuttle Facilities ( was : Shut
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Date: 20 Jan 89 15:35:00 GMT
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Someone had described a proposal for getting to the moon like so:
shuttle takes up rocket, shuttle lands and readies for launch while
rocket goes to moon and comes back, shuttle launches and rendezvous
with rocket to bring it back.

The problem mentioned was that a shuttle could not be turned around
fast enough to make the rendezvous.

Written  9:13 pm  Jan 18, 1989 by utzoo.UUCP!henry in cpe:sci.space.shuttle
>[...] There are two pads, [...] There are, I think, three mobile launchers.
>The VAB has four bays, [...] The Orbiter Processing Facility has two
>servicing bays.  There are at least two, and I think in fact four,
>control rooms in Launch Control. [...] There are even two crawlers.
>
>The big bottleneck, I would say, is simply the horrendous amount of
>manpower that goes into turning the orbiters around after each mission.

So, now that I have supporting evidence:  Why couldn't it be done with
two shuttles?  Both of them ready to launch before either of them launches.

			Paul Chamberlain
			Computer Product Engineering, Tandy Corp.
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