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From: peterb@pbear.UUCP
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Subject: LEO habitat ideas...
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Date: Sat, 9-Mar-85 07:30:34 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar  9 07:30:34 1985
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Nf-From: pbear!peterb    Mar  8 12:27:00 1985


	Does anybody have any data regarding the weights and measures of
a Saturn V rocket? I have a pet project I have been kicking around in my
head for a while.

	I presume(probably wrong) that some of the booster sections of
the saturn V rocket are still kicking around in mothballs.

	What would happen if you took just the booster, fitted it with some
solid rokect boosters, an areodynamic nose and launched it. I am trying to
work out the numbers regarding whether or not it can reach LEO, but I don't
have the numbers or the right equations. With time and help I'll get both.

	Here is a rather large hollow object with two perfectly good
airsealed chambers. If I remember right, the booster was something like 100
to 200 feet long. It also contains some LOX and Liquid hydrogren.  I am
assuming that boosters shut down when thrust drops off, rather than burn to
exhausted. Still there would be some unusable fuel in this thing, and with
the shuttle able to bring up some tools and personnel, I think it would not
take much to convert it into a usable habitat.

	It would contain two of the basic requirements needed. It gives
shelter, and it has air (well pure O2). Once some fittings are attached
(such as an airlock, solar cells, radio positioning gear, computers) then
the roughnecks would have a spartan but usable living quarters. If you put
up a few of these objects then you can use one as a "dry dock" where
sattelites can be repaired, another can be used for agriculture, another for
implementation of space industries. I don't think that this idea is the
greatest, but I do think its feasible (if the critters can be placed in
orbit!)

	I would love to see some people kick the idea around on the net. We
could work out some of the kinks in this crazy idea. Who knows, it might
become a reality. (oh wouldn't that be a rush!)

					Peter Barada
					ima!pbear!peterb

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