Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 00:50:42 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Larry Sica <lomion@mac.com>, "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org>, Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>, John Martinez <rolnif@mac.com>, barbish@a1poweruser.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: oh my god the nasa shuttle blewup Message-ID: <a05200f15ba64b06de6ac@[10.0.1.2]> In-Reply-To: <3E3EB480.87EE0356@mindspring.com> References: <C276E97B-3781-11D7-B48B-000393A335A2@mac.com> <3E3EB480.87EE0356@mindspring.com>
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At 10:27 AM -0800 2003/02/03, Terry Lambert 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.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
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