Project Orion: NASA's Next Spaceship Takes Shape

[vonster]

<blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p>Outsourced to Starbucks, a subsiderary of Hallibuton<p><hr /></p></p></blockquote><br /><br />hahaha.. exactly ..<br /><br />.

 

[yevaud]

Sorry - right idea, wrong thread.<br /><br />*Erk!* <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em>Differential Diagnosis:  </em>"<strong><em>I am both amused and annoyed that you think I should be less stubborn than you are</em></strong>."<br /> </p> </div>

 

[publiusr]

The DIRECT (HLLV-light) concept looks to be wide enough to allow Big Gemini/Biconic designs to be used/tested in LEO, and then launched with minimal assembly of insertion stages.

 

[john_316]

I guess NASA and Lockheed still havent learned the phrase - <br /><br />KISS<br /><br /><br />No! I'm talking about the rock group here silly...<br /><br />And 3 years lead time to make a valve to 1960-70s standards with modern machinery is to me a load of BS and should be able to be made with Boeings Laser Sintering Machines. <br /><br /><br /><img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /><br /><br /><br />Its all about whos getting paid and dragging it all out...

 

[JonClarke]

"And 3 years lead time to make a valve to 1960-70s standards with modern machinery is to me a load of BS and should be able to be made with Boeings Laser Sintering Machines."<br /><br />That sounds dangerously like corporate partisanship rather than logical argument. It does not matter who builds it, so long as it gets built. LM won this contract, get over it. There will be others for Boeing<br /><br />Jon <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em>Whether we become a multi-planet species with unlimited horizons, or are forever confined to Earth will be decided in the twenty-first century amid the vast plains, rugged canyons and lofty mountains of Mars</em>  Arthur Clarke</p> </div>