From: snidely.too@gmail.com   
      
   On Saturday, JF Mezei exclaimed wildly:   
   > Today, NASA was asked how long it would take to relight the engines   
   > should it be found that therte was no problem.  The answer was about one   
   > month, because of need to dry the engines, clean them etc.   
   >   
   > meanwhile in Boca Chica, SpaceX did 3 engine tess in the same day   
   > (granted very short bursts).   
   >   
   >   
   > I wonder how re-usable the SSMEs/RS25s would be if SpaceX would inherit   
   > them.   
      
   Very different design (by about 50 years), so extrapolation is   
   unreliable.   
      
   /dps   
      
      
   --   
   Killing a mouse was hardly a Nobel Prize-worthy exercise, and Lawrence   
   went apopleptic when he learned a lousy rodent had peed away all his   
   precious heavy water.   
   _The Disappearing Spoon_, Sam Kean   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)