What was NASA thinking?

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From: Ralph Buttigieg
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 17:10

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 c> Hence the question in the title of my post:  What was NASA
 c> thinking about?  Apparently the Saturn engines could have
 c> been used to build the shuttle vehicle.  Why weren't they?
 c>  
 c> A shuttle with 5 or 6 J-2s using 2 uprated F-1s in the recoverable
 c> boosters would have taken advantage of a history of literally
 c> dozens of successful flight firings.  Plus there would
 c> have been a much wider range of abort modes.
 c>  

 But how reusable were the Saturn engines? Then again, how reusable are
 the SSME...

 ta

 Ralph Buttigieg

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