Re: What was NASA thinking?

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 20:27

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In article <3_713_635.02b4e7a50@Kralizec.fido.zeta.org.au> ralph.buttigieg@f635.n713.z3.fido.zeta.org.au (Ralph Buttigieg) writes:
> 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.
>
> But how reusable were the Saturn engines? Then again, how reusable are
> the SSME...

Any regeneratively-cooled liquid-fueled engine ought to be reusable almost
indefinitely, if it's mounted on a reusable vehicle.  Test-stand experience
certainly supports this.
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"God willing... we shall return."       | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
       -Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry

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