From: "John Beamish" 

Yeah ... shuttle.  Not Saturn V.  And what happens when the shuttle is
retired in a few years ... how will the big packages go into orbit?
Certainly not by a modern day Saturn V (that kind of lift was needed only
for NASA)
but by mid-range lifters that can send up several packages that get
connected after doing a rendezvous in orbit.


On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 13:15:23 -0500, Geo.  wrote:

> "John Beamish"  wrote in message
> news:op.tmvklxipm6tn4t{at}dellblack.wlfdle.phub.net.cable.rogers.com...
>
>> As for the heavy-lift vehicles ... so?  There's not a single mil use of
>> a Saturn V that I can recall in recent years so Saturn-style heavy-lift
>> is nice but is covered by a wide variety of other launch vehicles.
>
> http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E04E2DE1F38F934A35755C0A96494
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>
> Geo. (think bigger and better than SatV)

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