Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!lll-winken!uunet!attcan!lsuc!ncrcan!ziebmef!mdf From: mdf@ziebmef.uucp (Matthew Francey) Newsgroups: sci.space Subject: Re: Using the Shuttle for higher orbits Message-ID: <1989Mar24.190453.2505@ziebmef.uucp> Date: 25 Mar 89 00:04:52 GMT References: Organization: Ziebmef Public Access Unix, Toronto, Canada Lines: 14 K_MACART@UNHH.BITNET writes: > Think of all the LEM type > vehicles a fully loaded shuttle could hold in lunar orbit. Think of how many more it could hold if the wings and other aerodynamic stuff was removed. Well, it couldn't hold *more* of them, but it would be able to get them there more efficiently. The shuttle IS a "shuttle". It goes up, and it comes down. For tasks like going to the Moon, a new vehicle is in order. -- Name: Matthew Francey Address: N43o34'13.5" W79o34'33.3" 86m mdf@ziebmef.UUCP uunet!utgpu!{ontmoh!moore,ncrcan}!ziebmef!mdf