On Wed, 2014-10-29 at 19:54 -0500, Dave Cole wrote: > On 10/29/2014 5:20 PM, Leonardo Marsaglia wrote: > > 2014-10-29 18:34 GMT-03:00 Dave Cole <linuxcncro...@gmail.com>: > > > >> I think that Nasa should resurrect the Constellation program. Nasa > >> received most of the tooling required to make the Ares rocket. They > >> even installed and tested the tooling fixtures. > >> > >> Having to pay Russia to launch our crap into low earth orbit is an > >> embarrassment. > >> > > And imagine how far we would be now if they hadn't cancelled the Apollo > > program. > > > > I've been reading something about the VASIMR motors to reduce the > > travelling speed and they would be testing the first prototypes sometime > > near 2013/2014, but I don't know if that happened or not. Reading wikipedia > > it says that with this motors the duration of a possible trip to Mars would > > be of 39 days. Pretty impressive. > > > > Anyway, the Plasma motors only would be useful in space, we still need the > > rockets to escape from the earht's gravity, unless they come with a better > > system. > > Funny that you mention Apollo... > > I just heard that the engines on the Antares rocket that blew up last > night was using 40 year old refurbished Russian rocket engines.. (no > joke - Apollo vintage) > > A quick search verified that. They were originally made in the 1970's! > http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/oct/29/russian-rocket-crash-virginia > > I'm always looking for a bargain, but why would anyone in their right > mind use refurbished Russian Rocket engines from the 1970's for a launch > in 2014 ?? > > Wouldn't that be a RED FLAG for most engineers?? > > What were they thinking?? :-( > > Dave > Well, Russian built rocket engines incinerated more than a few Russian cosmonauts. Apparently, when they work they work well...and when they fail ..... opps! At least we were not launching people. ;-)
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