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13 SSMEs on the booster, what could possibly go wrong ? maintenance maybe ? turbopump explosion ? Boeing had the right booster with their flyback S-IC even more if upgraded with the 1.8 million pound thrust F-1A...After reading about shuttle pre-history for the last 15 years, my gut feeling is that the best shuttle might have been the orbiter above (internal LOX, drop tank LH2) with Boeing flyback S-IC, the later manned for early flight tests (think Enterprise ALT) and later unmanned, could have been done with 1978 technology (autoland and the coming GPS)
13 SSMEs on the booster, what could possibly go wrong ? maintenance maybe ? turbopump explosion ? Boeing had the right booster with their flyback S-IC even more if upgraded with the 1.8 million pound thrust F-1A...
After reading about shuttle pre-history for the last 15 years, my gut feeling is that the best shuttle might have been the orbiter above (internal LOX, drop tank LH2) with Boeing flyback S-IC, the later manned for early flight tests (think Enterprise ALT) and later unmanned, could have been done with 1978 technology (autoland and the coming GPS)
