Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] FWD: CNN Breaking News

[Michael B Holt <tlohm@juno.com>]

On Sun, 2 Feb 2003 15:23:09 +0100 "Peter Madsen" writes:
>
>... I would feal a lot more safe in a Mercury capsule or a well tryed
Atlas
>booster, than in the Shutte. My point here related to the topic, is to 
>keep things simple, because high tech solutions is not always safer than
>low-tech.

That's a good point.   The older capsules -- Mercury, Gemini and
Apollo -- were lower-tech than they would be today.   All the 
electronics, for example, was quite simple: it was built up from
components, to a great extent.  Today, ICs would permit less
power to be used for electronics.

Have you ever looked at the design of the interior of the space 
capsules?  I have an old book about them, and the interior layout 
is useful for understanding just how small and efficient things 
can be!

>Think simple, and live longer...

Quite so!   



Mike H.


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