Okay, maybe SSTO IS a pipe dream, at least given the curent techs Fnord. But MY point is if we never dream, and only accept the status quo, breakthroughs never
happen...
I'll even accept that wings wouldnt work for deep space transfer orbits.
It still come back to my point that it seems like Nasa is resting on its laurels rather than trying to find ways forwards. and THAT I worry about, for the
reasons pointed out above.
I guess the thing that sticks out in my mind largest right now is that the Orion might be all fine and well for local use; by that I mean no further than the
moon. But they're also talking about sticking 4-6 people in one and sending it to MARS. Now correct my misassumptions here, but I was under the impression
that we're talking a mission duration in MONTHS, maybe even over a year? Stuck in a cone of how many cubic feet?
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children
happen...
I'll even accept that wings wouldnt work for deep space transfer orbits.
It still come back to my point that it seems like Nasa is resting on its laurels rather than trying to find ways forwards. and THAT I worry about, for the
reasons pointed out above.
I guess the thing that sticks out in my mind largest right now is that the Orion might be all fine and well for local use; by that I mean no further than the
moon. But they're also talking about sticking 4-6 people in one and sending it to MARS. Now correct my misassumptions here, but I was under the impression
that we're talking a mission duration in MONTHS, maybe even over a year? Stuck in a cone of how many cubic feet?
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children