Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:33:03 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>,
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Subject: [WSFA] Re: [wsfa-forum] Forward!  Into the past!!
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> "Mike B." <yahoo at omniphile.com> 9/15/2011 3:20 PM >>>
>NASA has unveiled the plans for the next big booster.  Uses recycled
>shuttle parts, combined with Apollo-like designs for the main booster,
>to launch loads slightly larger than the shuttle could loft...and,
>maybe, eventually, up to twice as much per launch.  Crew capsule is
>about like Apollo in appearance.  They talk about "deep space missions",=

>but *I* wouldn't want to be stuck in something that small for very long.

In "All Judgment Fled" by James White there is the rather harrowing =
description of a pair of Apollo capsules heading off to Mars.

Not for those who suffer from claustrophobia.

Great First Contact novel.

mjw