[Boatanchors] Yeah; it's OT. So? Re: Space Shuttle

[J. Forster]

I remember hearing that a familiar yellow school bus would fit in the
cargo bay.

-John

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> I agree: we can't know that the other configurations
> wouldn't have had their own deadly failure modes.
> I'm no structural engineer, but some things look
> a little "iffy" on their face.
> How many of us have seen a shuttle up close?
> I have.  It's H U G E.  I think the Apollo
> Command and Service module stack
> might just fit in the payload bay.
> With a payload, the shuttle would have been
> a massive top-load for a vertical stack.
> The side-torque on the stage junction
> during launch would be massive.
>
> Regardless of how it was built, their was one
> deadly failure mode that would be common to
> any build:  (mis)managers more interested
> in their own careers than in the crew's lives.
>
> Here's one you'll find interesting:  The Russians copied our
> shuttle (their "Buran"), with some important differences.
> For one thing: they decided saving cosmonaut lives
> during a disaster was a real concern, so they designed
> systems to do that.  Secondly:  They designed their
> shuttle as a weapons platform and cancelled it when
> they decided dropping nukes from orbit probably
> wasn't such a good idea.
> Their boosters were a much better design as well.
> More at:
> http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20664
>
>
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