The Return of Apollo?

Posted by michael on Tuesday September 9, 2003 @05:42AM from the flyboy dept.

hpulley writes "Bell bottoms are back, the Stones are still touring and Time has a piece on how NASA's _new_ space vehicle may actually be the return of a very old friend, a highly modified and modernized version of the Apollo Space Capsule. Manned spacecraft might actually leave low earth orbit again! Initially they'd fly with Delta and Atlas but more powerful boosters could be developed. We could go to the Moon again, and perhaps to Mars but I'm getting ahead of myself. Does that mean the last 30 years of space flight have been for naught? Expensive steps backward?"

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Re:Are you kidding me? by arth1 · 2003-09-09 05:44 · Score: 5, Funny

Didn't they just come off of serious embarassment with the Columbia disaster and now they are going to re-instate 50-year-old technology?

Just wait until you hear about their Icarus project.

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Retro is in.... by banzai75 · 2003-09-09 05:47 · Score: 5, Funny

First we bring back the Apple I, now Apollo. Please tell me disco isn't coming back too.
Bad Decision by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-09 05:50 · Score: 5, Funny

Initially they'd fly with Delta

Bad decision. They should fly with Southwest or Jet Blue.

Avoid Delta. United too, for that matter.