Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 02:07:40 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>, Larry Sica <lomion@mac.com>, "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org>, John Martinez <rolnif@mac.com>, barbish@a1poweruser.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: oh my god the nasa shuttle blewup Message-ID: <a05200f20ba64c258f1aa@[10.0.1.2]> In-Reply-To: <3E3F0F4A.3A531CE9@mindspring.com> References: <C276E97B-3781-11D7-B48B-000393A335A2@mac.com> <3E3EB480.87EE0356@mindspring.com> <a05200f15ba64b06de6ac@[10.0.1.2]> <3E3F0F4A.3A531CE9@mindspring.com>
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At 4:54 PM -0800 2003/02/03, Terry Lambert wrote:
> 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.
Yes, but while the shuttle fleet represents the sum total of US
heavy lift capacity, with regards to the ISS Columbia wasn't doing
any heavy lift -- at most, it was doing other heavy lift in lower
orbits which would otherwise have been done by one of the other
shuttles which *was* (is) doing heavy lift for the ISS.
So, losing Columbia is a loss in the overall US heavy lift
capacity. Towards that end, this reduces heavy lift for ISS, because
there is now more competition for the capacity on the other shuttles.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
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