From: "Noah Scott" (bigcheese@stellvia.lib)
To: nttp://fen.tech.disc
Subj: Re: One From the Vaults
Date Posted: May 10, 2014
Thankfully, this tale of sordid politics has a happy ending. With Stellvia now owning all the data, and since it seems they're looking towards an expansion project the Orion design might see the light of day again. The design is sound - I'd say it's easily as good or better than some of the stuff the Feddies have done at Utopia, the Warsies have at Kuat, the Senshi at Marginis or our efforts at Gagarin Crater - and it'd be ideal for work that doesn't require a Shuttle. Hell, maybe NASA could manage to outfit SR-01 properly now.
Maybe, but it'll have to wait its turn. I just bought the plans and remaining prototype designs of the K-1 Vehicle from Rocketplane Kistler, that they mothballed back in 2007 when NASA cancelled the contract. I want to put one of those babies together and dock it at the ISS, now that Artemis has that maintenance contract.
[1] Okay, so I just had Sora make puppy-dog eyes at Noah until he broke and gave her the password. That still qualifies, even if it makes me a horrible person.
Wait until you find out what I got her to promise me in exchange. You aren't using one of your drydocks for the next couple of months, right?
(OOC: I swear, I added the bit about the K-1 to the ISS writeup before I read this post...)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
To: nttp://fen.tech.disc
Subj: Re: One From the Vaults
Date Posted: May 10, 2014
Thankfully, this tale of sordid politics has a happy ending. With Stellvia now owning all the data, and since it seems they're looking towards an expansion project the Orion design might see the light of day again. The design is sound - I'd say it's easily as good or better than some of the stuff the Feddies have done at Utopia, the Warsies have at Kuat, the Senshi at Marginis or our efforts at Gagarin Crater - and it'd be ideal for work that doesn't require a Shuttle. Hell, maybe NASA could manage to outfit SR-01 properly now.
Maybe, but it'll have to wait its turn. I just bought the plans and remaining prototype designs of the K-1 Vehicle from Rocketplane Kistler, that they mothballed back in 2007 when NASA cancelled the contract. I want to put one of those babies together and dock it at the ISS, now that Artemis has that maintenance contract.
[1] Okay, so I just had Sora make puppy-dog eyes at Noah until he broke and gave her the password. That still qualifies, even if it makes me a horrible person.
Wait until you find out what I got her to promise me in exchange. You aren't using one of your drydocks for the next couple of months, right?
(OOC: I swear, I added the bit about the K-1 to the ISS writeup before I read this post...)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012