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In article <1k9b54INN5i1@phantom.gatech.edu> matthew@phantom.gatech.edu (Matthew DeLuca) writes:

>>I know Mir is far from ideal, but what is.. Why reinvent the wheel when the
>>wheel is already in Orbit??

>Because if you just keep using the same wheel, you never develop better 
>wheels.  Sure, we can do as some people have suggested and rent Mir and 
>buy Soyuzes and use Energia and save lots of money, but the end result would
>be the complete stasis of the space arm of the U.S. aerospace industry, 
>coupled with Russian dominance of space down the line.  

I'm not sure our current path will result in any difference. As it is,
NASA is avoiding cheaper commercial services as much as it can. We are
pouring more and more money into an infrastructure which is getting more
and more expensive. The end result has been a statis of the US space
arm for a long time.

Maybe intelligent leverage of Russian technology (like Soyuz) combined
with US capabilities in ELV and cheap commercial HLV's will allow space
to become large enough to become self sustaining and end the stasis.

  Allen

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