Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bbn!rochester!rutgers!apple!bionet!agate!ucbvax!hplabs!hp-pcd!hpcvlx!bturner From: bturner@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Bill Turner) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Heavylift Boosters Message-ID: <101420001@hpcvlx.HP.COM> Date: 27 Sep 88 17:03:16 GMT References: <28624@think.UUCP> Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA Lines: 8 > If Shuttle engines are produced in sufficient quantity to be usable in > expendables, the cost ought to come down and the reliability ought to > increase. Totally ignorant question, but what the hell? Would it be possible to design at least the first stage to be recoverable? Sort of like the SRBs which are retrieved. At least, save the engines. (Course, after the splashdown/recovery, I don't know if I'd trust 'em...)