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"...all these worlds..." is a blog by David Hitt. It covers space exploration, decent science fiction, humor (by its very nature), and whatever else I happen to find cool. (Formerly "You Must Fight The Bear")
Name: David Hitt About Me: Inspiring the next generation of explorers... See my complete profile
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:: Thursday, May 01, 2003 ::
NASA's Apollo Creed Now this is kind of interesting question. The article linked to in the post below discusses whether NASA should build another shuttle, but this one has a more unusual topic--Should NASA build more Apollo capsules? A capsule-style design has always been mentioned as one of the possibilities for the Orbital Space Plane, which could turn out to be somewhat misnamed, but it turns out that NASA has had a team looking at the possibility of using not only a capsule design in general, but an Apollo-type design in specific. Needless to say, it would require substantial modifications to bring the design up to the state of the art, and could even involve making the capsule 5-8 percent bigger in order to accomodate additional crew, but the basic ideas would stay the same. It really is an interesting concept, but man, I don't know that I'd want to ride in the bottom seats.