Briefs: Thinning Orion; Big chutes; Asteroid webbing

Mr. X critiques the report on the efforts to get an Orion safely into space on an Ares 1: Thinner - Chair Force Engineer - Oct.2.07
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The $10B capsule-on-an-expendable Orion/Ares system fails to impress but by golly Orion will have really, really big parachutes: World's Largest Rocket Stage Recovery Parachute Test is Successful - CNN - Oct.2.07
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Posted 10/02/07 | 22:01:04 by TopSpacer | Filed under: NASA Exploration Systems

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Mr.X is RIGHT, cut the Orion's redundancy to save mass is the WORST choice they can do!

the BEST choice is to ADD power to the Ares-I with an SSME-class "J-2Y" and to adopt one+ "easy ways to CUT the Orion's weight"...

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Posted by gm at 10/03/07 01:09:57

Drop the chutes on the Ares lower stage.

There is no good reason to parachute the stages
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Posted by anonymous at 10/04/07 15:10:42

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