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Daniel L — 8/30/2004 2:08:29 PM (archived)

When Zubrin was out here (in 2000 if I remember) he said that Skylab - launched by a modified Saturn V - had the the equivalent internal work/habitat space as the ISS. I don't know if he meant the ISS at its then stage of development, or the projected ISS at completion. But the lesson is clear.

.. well at least we got all those terrific unmanned missions - how many since 1972? Five Mars landers - all NASA - .. various Mars orbiters, Cassini, Galileo, the amazing Voyagers, etc. etc.

Hopefully NASA is not really dead - just 'resting after a long squawk' (apologies to Monty Python's parrot sketch)

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The lost and forgotten missions - Raoul - 8/28/2004 4:28:43 PM
- Somehow an appropriate place to put this - E.P. Grondine - 8/28/2004 6:29:35 PM
  - re: Launchers - Raoul - 8/28/2004 8:56:33 PM
    - re: Launchers - E.P. Grondine - 8/28/2004 9:41:07 PM
- Saturn V - Tom Brosz - 8/28/2004 6:27:14 PM
  - re: Saturn V - Raoul - 8/28/2004 8:33:13 PM
    - I still have mine - Gary - 8/29/2004 6:23:00 AM
      - re:Envying you - Raoul - 8/29/2004 8:07:41 AM
        
        I still like to play with it - Gary - 8/29/2004 5:27:57 PM
  - Old scandal - Gary - 8/28/2004 7:09:53 PM
    - re: Old scandal - gbaikie - 8/29/2004 10:47:03 PM
      - The rear view mirror - Gary - 8/30/2004 6:16:56 AM
        
        Cold War factor - dtb - 8/30/2004 2:51:04 PM
        
        re: The rear view mirror - gbaikie - 8/30/2004 1:59:15 PM
    - I wish we would've left the Russians out of the station program. - Lee - 8/29/2004 3:30:54 AM
      - re: I wish we would've left the Russians out of the station program. - luiscar - 8/30/2004 2:40:01 PM
      - re: 600 km - Raoul - 8/29/2004 8:14:13 AM
        
        The six segment SRBs would've allowed it to go that high. (n/t) - Lee - 8/29/2004 9:02:03 AM
      - There are reasons why the ISS is a white elephant - Gary - 8/29/2004 6:11:32 AM
        
        re: There are reasons why the ISS is a white elephant - alcaray - 8/30/2004 10:44:33 PM
        
        EML-1 - ken murphy - 8/31/2004 4:31:20 AM
        
        Skylab - Daniel L - 8/30/2004 2:08:29 PM
        
        Hardly. September 26, 1998 - E.P. Grondine - 8/29/2004 7:28:27 PM
        
        I wonder if Tom Hanks could be interested in it - E.P. Grondine - 8/29/2004 7:32:53 PM
    - and new nonsense. Ummm, Gary... - E.P. Grondine - 8/28/2004 9:54:04 PM
      - re: and new nonsense. Ummm, Gary... - Enyo - 8/29/2004 9:54:55 PM
        
        I know, I already knew, now here's why what I said is right - E.P. Grondine - 8/30/2004 3:35:18 PM

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