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More New Details on NASA's CEV Launcher Studies

Posted by timothy on from the space-bureaucrats-will-find-a-way dept.

TheEqualizer writes "Continuing on the NYT story on NASA's current CEV launcher plans, spaceref has an even more extensive look with detailed assessments of the available options. By all accounts, it looks like NASA is picking up where it left off with Apollo but also combining it with established Shuttle technology -- the capsule concept of the 1960s atop the shuttle boosters of the 1970s being the winning combination under the current budgetary limitations. However, is this coupling of old technology and designs really the best we can do?"

8 of 361 comments (clear)

  1. Re:OT: Mod point suddenly rare? by MichaelSmith · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Something's broke that divvies out mod points

    This appears to be the case. Perhaps they lost the database which is used to decide who gets mod points? Perhaps it is broken?

    We will know it is working if this post gets modded OT

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  2. Frist psOt! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    From a te3hnical Of various BSD All our times have

  3. moo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i am a script

  4. Re:If it ain't broke... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Stop signing your posts, you fucking cretin. If by chance you happened to say something that wasn't utterly retarded and I wanted to know your name, I'd look at the top of your post were it's displayed in all it's retarded glory for all to see.

    Fucking peon.

  5. Re:OT: Mod point suddenly rare? by dan+dan+the+dna+man · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I browse at +3 and get much the same! I get fairly frequent mod points, I metamod daily, I haven't had a sniff of mod points this week, which is unusual..

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  6. Re:OT: Mod point suddenly rare? by TrippTDF · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm glad someone else noticed... I remember very clearly having some mod points one day that disappeared.

  7. WYou fail it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    superior to sl0w, DUE TO THE TROUBLES downward spiral. In Jesus Up The Fortunately, Linux

  8. Re:OT: Mod point suddenly rare? by earthlingpink · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I thought it was just the case that everyone had been making really lousy comments for a couple of days...