Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: space news from Aug 15 AW&ST
Message-ID: <1988Sep24.214622.26834@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1988Sep12.032459.25617@utzoo.uucp> <972@netxcom.UUCP> <776@etive.ed.ac.uk> <1631@daisy.UUCP> <1988Sep17.222225.9422@utzoo.uucp> <794@etive.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 88 21:46:22 GMT

In article <794@etive.ed.ac.uk> bob@etive.ed.ac.uk (Bob Gray) writes:
>>.... Note especially that *any* modifications to
>>the tank before launch are going to have to be approved as safe for
>>flight, which is a massive headache.
>
>This is why I specifically mentioned the Shuttle-C and the
>proposals to use it to launch the major structural
>components of the space station...

Given the lack of spares, any Shuttle-C launch carrying major station
components is going to have to meet very nearly the same safety specs
as a manned launch.  It's not going to gain you much.
-- 
NASA is into artificial        |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
stupidity.  - Jerry Pournelle  | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu