From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

John Beamish wrote:
> 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.
>

The russians & Europeans would probably disagree.

Adam

>
> 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=9E04E2DE1F38F934A35755C0A9649
48260
>>
>>
>> Geo. (think bigger and better than SatV)
>

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