[AR] Re: starship abort?
- From: Henry Spencer <hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Arocket List <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2023 23:24:08 -0400 (EDT)
On Fri, 21 Apr 2023, John Dom wrote:
Your mention there was ever considered an F5 concept in the 60ies
surprised me. Yes there were so many gargantuan rockets considered...
The launcher-design chapter in "Lunar Missions and Explorations", Leondes
& Vance eds., 1964, has a number of plots of various characteristics
against launcher size. The X-axis, launcher size, is usually measured as
number of F-1s in the first stage, typically running from 1 to 20...!
F5s could maybe have made the shuttle unnecessary to build the ISS and
an early moon base.
The shuttle originally was not meant for *building* those things -- it was
just supposed to be the supply ship. The hardware would be launched using
improved versions of the Saturn V. (When Congress finally definitively
rejected further Saturn V production, on 29 July 1970, a stop-work order
went out to NASA's space-station-design group the same day.)
Henry
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