Re: new Atlas V Heavylifter


Message posted by Andre' M. Dall'au on July 23, 2000 at 16:02:49 EST:

Thanks mate, first of all if NASA wants to transport an oversized booster, the have the Guppy and SuperGuppy transports that airlifted the Saturn V components by air, trucks are for much smaller vehicles. The Atlas series is the early liquid-fuelled rockets, that I don't know if they are still being made, but I doubt if another booster would be named the same. In today's cost-conscious business attitude for both NASA (Not Another Spacecraft Accident)and the Russians (remember when the Russians left some guys circling the Earth when they found that they didn't have enough rubles to de-orbit them), I don't think they would jointly develop a new booster when both sides (as Magoo deftly noted) has already proven booster stacks in the pipeline. If you have any further info, or can footnote your sources, we'd really like it so we can delve into this further.


In Reply to: Re: new Atlas V Heavylifter posted by Magoo on July 23, 2000 at 07:08:35 EST:

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