More or less. The designs I remember seeing was more shuttle like, with a unmanned lifting body that was almost all cargo space. The idea was to load it up and launch it. Either a shuttle would recover it in orbit or it would dock with the ISS. The lifting body would then return to earth.
larry On 7/26/05, SStewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it the Atlas Rocket that's basically the two sold boosters from the > shuttle and a liquid booster with the payload on top? > > sas > > Scott A. Stewart, > Web Application Developer > > Engineering Consulting Services, Ltd. (ECS) > 14026 Thunderbolt Place, Suite 300 > Chantilly, VA 20151 > Phone: (703) 995-1737 > Fax: (703) 834-5527 > > "Many thousands of years ago, a blue faced Pict stepped on a bloated sheep > carcass... and thus the Pipes were born" > > .... the Scottish Rogues > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 01:59 pm > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Discovery > Importance: Low > > As a heavy lift vehicle there's nothing else like it. > > There was a design for an unmanned version of the shuttle that was for > heavy lift, but that got axed too during the Ronnie Raygun years. > > larry > > On 7/26/05, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Nick wrote: > > > I think space exploration is a very useful endeavor. I would love to see > > > us > > > colonize other worlds. > > > > > > > I agree! I just think the shuttle does squat to further that goal. > > > > We should work towards a base on the moon similar to the ones on > > Antarctica. They should have telescopes, etc and we should be looking > > for ways to develop technology that allow humans to easily survive in > > those conditions. > > > > I don't see how the shuttle does anything for anything. > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:166511 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
