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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
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> 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...)