http://www.proaxis.com/cop/hv93desc.htm
Wednesday, June 23 1993.
Tim Roemer (Indiana) proposes to kill the space station. He fails by ONE vote - a
215-216 close tie !
Whatif the space station was cancelled that night ?
Back to the Moon and beyond,
on the cheap, after 2000.
Early Lunar Access
http://www.nss.org/settlement/moon/ELA.html
A Earth-return capsule mounted atop a lunar lander. The whole thing boosted toward the Moon by a Centaur upper stage.
Only two launches are needed. One shuttle, one Titan IV.
Athena
Mars flyby. Four storable-propellant stages, one inflatable hab.
http://pdf.aiaa.org/getfile.cfm?url...
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Asteroid flyby and Webb telescope servicing mission at Sun-Earth L1. NASA toyed with these ideas for its new
Orion capsule.
- The shuttle is retired before Columbia accident, around 2002.
- Big reorganization at the Johnson Space Flight Center
- Griffin, Goldin, Abbey (and others) are butterflied away
- NASA administrator Wayne Hale (an excellent man)
- Shuttle-derived heavy lift vehicle, DIRECT style (inline)
- NASA / ESA "divorce"
- Mir space station extended with ESA funds
- Mir 2 build from Mir