From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Feb 3 17: 0:40 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16B5937B401 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 17:00:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from bluejay.mail.pas.earthlink.net (bluejay.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 865B143E4A for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 17:00:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0354.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.193.99] helo=mindspring.com) by bluejay.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18frRt-0006SY-00; Mon, 03 Feb 2003 17:00:30 -0800 Message-ID: <3E3F0F4A.3A531CE9@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 16:54:34 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brad Knowles Cc: Larry Sica , "f.johan.beisser" , John Martinez , barbish@a1poweruser.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: oh my god the nasa shuttle blewup References: <3E3EB480.87EE0356@mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a4f79e2b65f9fb48854dad7b5615f2ee193ca473d225a0f487350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brad Knowles wrote: > > This is unlikely to remain true in the future. With this most > > recent loss, the U.S. has lost 25% of it's heavy lift capability, > > and if you include the Challenger, it has lost 40% of the designed > > total heavy lift capability. > > Columbia wasn't doing any heavy life for the ISS. As the oldest > shuttle in the fleet, it couldn't carry enough cargo to do the job. > Instead, it was taking on the other missions that it could do and > freeing up the other vehicles to do more heavy lift. > > That's still a loss in heavy lift capacity (due to increased > competition), but a less direct one. The U.S. heavy lift capability is all shuttle; even if the Russians were lifting all the really heavy components (they were), the shuttle represents the U.S. capability. The Delta that supposedly has a huge capacity measures that capacity to LEO, not GEO, and it's capacity to GEO is tiny. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message