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Re: Nuclear-powered spacecraft plan feared

To: "Grimm, Lawrence" <LGrimm@FACNET.UCLA.EDU>, "Radsafe \(E-mail\)" <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>
Subject: Re: Nuclear-powered spacecraft plan feared
From: "Rad Safety Institute" <radsafeinst@cableone.net>
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 20:02:05 -0600
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Radsafers: Does the shuttle have DU counterweights like big airplanes have?

"Big airplanes" have them to dampen flutter (aerodynamic/structural-coupling-vibrations). I am not knowledgeable of the shuttle's flight regime' since it is so far beyond anything else flying, but it is a very "stiff" structure that spends very little of it flight time in the atmosphere. Even so, why would it matter? DU is just heavy dirt used for dead weight? The earth is "covered" with it and we do alright.

Ed Battle

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- RE: Nuclear-powered spacecraft plan feared
  - From: "Grimm, Lawrence" <LGrimm@FACNET.UCLA.EDU>

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