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From: kr0u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Kevin William Ryan)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Heavy Lift Vehicle
Message-ID: <4XwVpQy00Xc94aJ3IN@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 9 Feb 89 23:23:08 GMT
Organization: Biology, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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   Steve Hix (fiddler%concertina@Sun.com) suggests with half a smiley that
we get a license to build Energias in Florida.

   Now, it's been said (with questionable veracity) that the Soviets have
copied their Shuttle from us.  What are the possibilities of copying some big
boosters from them?  Not necessarily Energia, but perhaps Proton?  I would
think that it's in the same class as redoing the Saturn V...

   On a more serious note - numerous people have asked about redoing the
Saturn V, despite the fact that NASA pitched most of the plans and machinery
for same.  It seems that the cost would be almost prohibitive.
   I would like to know if anyone has information about the Saturn launcher
used for the early Apollo tests (the IIB?) - were the plans for that pitched
as well?  Surely the capacity to orbit the mass of the LM/SM/CM combination
would be useful.  Does anyone know if the plans for that are still around?

                                                  kwr

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