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> Question is, could it reasonably have been guessed at the early stages that it wasn't. Decades of hindsight gives you, pfdietz, a very privileged position. I
by oldgradstudent 4y ago
> Question is, could it reasonably have been guessed at the early stages that it wasn't. Decades of hindsight gives you, pfdietz, a very privileged position.
It could, and it was.
http://www.iasa-intl.com/folders/shuttle/GoodbyeColumbia.html http://www.iasa-intl.com/folders/shuttle/GoodbyeColumbia.htm...
- _a_a_a_ 4y agoHuh. Touche.
- pfdietz 4y agoAnd it was known as early as the 1960s that expendable launch vehicles could be reduced in cost by as much as a factor of 10 by adopting a minimum cost rather than maximum performance design methodology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_dumb_booster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_dumb_booster http://www.quarkweb.com/foyle/MinimumCostDesign.pdf http://www.quarkweb.com/foyle/MinimumCostDesign.pdf Easterbrook again was pointing this out, in the August 17, 1987 Newsweek.