SPACE Digest V2 #53

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Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1981 03:19

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>From OTA@S1-A Tue Dec  8 03:15:30 1981

SPACE Digest                                      Volume 2 : Issue 53

Today's Topics:
	      Re: Re: big projects / do everything yourself?
				  Orion
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Date: 7 Dec 1981 10:04 PST
From: Lynn.ES at PARC-MAXC
Subject: Re: Re: big projects / do everything yourself?
In-reply-to: csin!cjh's message of 4 Dec 1981 11:45:01-EST
To: Space-Enthusiasts at MIT-MC
cc: Lynn.es

The costs of getting mass into even LEO is strictly a result of having to carry
chemical fuel with you during launch.  The cost of say electrical energy to
launch into orbit is pennies per pound, if you don't carry the fuel with you that
you are burning.  Once we harness high energy fuels (nuclear) or learn to beam
up the launch energy, space colonists may be no more select and privileged than
automobile drivers.  

/Don Lynn

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Date:  7 Dec 1981 1556-EST
From: JoSH <JoSH at RUTGERS>
Subject: Orion
To: space at MIT-AI

A description of the Orion project is given in Freeman Dyson's
excellent "Disturbing the Universe."
--JoSH
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