I'm less than sanguine about the technical approach that seems to be described.
Checking some details...
Ah.
www.astronautix.com/props/loxlh2.htm
www.astronautix.com/props/loxosene.htm
www.astronautix.com/props/h2o2udmh.htm
and
www.astronautix.com/lvfam/vonbraun.htm
...so, among other things, the designs don't match the numbers, the numbers were sloppy first-draft versions anyway, and they spend a lot of mass on design approaches that were found to simply not work.
No, actually, I don't think that political will was all that was lacking, and find the suggestion insulting to those who did the work to achieve what we did get.
Ja, -n
(Hydrazine? Really, people - explosive, expensive, poisonous, and corrosive? Good luck!)
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"I'm terribly sorry, but I have to kill you quite horribly now."
Checking some details...
Ah.
www.astronautix.com/props/loxlh2.htm
www.astronautix.com/props/loxosene.htm
www.astronautix.com/props/h2o2udmh.htm
and
www.astronautix.com/lvfam/vonbraun.htm
...so, among other things, the designs don't match the numbers, the numbers were sloppy first-draft versions anyway, and they spend a lot of mass on design approaches that were found to simply not work.
No, actually, I don't think that political will was all that was lacking, and find the suggestion insulting to those who did the work to achieve what we did get.
Ja, -n
(Hydrazine? Really, people - explosive, expensive, poisonous, and corrosive? Good luck!)
===============================================
"I'm terribly sorry, but I have to kill you quite horribly now."