From: jeff.findley@ugs.nojunk.com   
      
   "Mike Combs"  wrote in   
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   > "Philip"  wrote in message   
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   > >   
   > > Will the new systems also recover and reuse the boosters? If not, seems   
   > > like a waste of a good SSME which are supposed to be good for many   
   > firings.   
   >   
   > The SRBs should be retrievable/reusable same as today, but I'm interested   
   in   
   > hearing about that 5 SSME cluster.  Are we getting into disposable SSMEs   
   > now?  I thought they were way too complicated for that.   
      
   Complicated isn't the issue.  Expense would be.  But at the low predicted   
   flight rate of the stick and the SDHLV, I doubt NASA would want to spend the   
   money to make them recoverable.  This new proposal shows that NASA still   
   doesn't care much about how much launch costs will dominate the program in   
   years to come.   
      
   Jeff   
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