Re: Station-building: a vessel proposal

[Christopher Secord <secord@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:31 AM 12/5/2002 -0500, you wrote:
 >get the payload up to the station's orbit, where the Dragonfly will 
takeover.

 >Basically, I just think that since the Dragonfly is intended to do the bulk
 >of the construction work

This is the part that I don't understand.  In the real world, we either 
send an unmanned module that docks itself to the station, for example the 
Zvezda module pictured here:
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/assembly/html/s106e5056.html

or if delivering people anyway, just use the Space Shuttle.  What exactly 
is the dragonfly for?

It actually uses more fuel since it has to go from the station to the newly 
delivered module and then bring the module back to the station.


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