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To: goldworldnet who wrote (668487)	1/16/2005 3:11:21 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

If we use a logical approach of building incrementally, we can make it to Mars in a couple of decades. The problem with Apollo was that in order to achieve a time line they had to make the system disposable. That mentality later crippled the shuttle program. One shuttle proposal was estimated to be a couple billion more to build; it included a fully or nearly fully reusable launch system. The initial stage would have included a pilot and wings; it would have been returned to an airfield landing, and reused. The dollar signs made it unachievable on the NASA budget, and with space fever waning, NASA was not going to get big increases. Peter