re space station redesign jsc alternative in article ralibinnc f cbl umd edu mike starburst umd edu michael f santangelo writes the only thing that scares me is the part about simply strapping ssme s and a nosecone on it and just launching it i have this vision of something going terribly wrong with the launch resulting in the complete loss of the new modular space station not just a peice of it as would be the case with staged in orbit construction it doesn t make a whole lot of difference actually since they weren t building spares of the station hardware anyway dumb at least this is only one launch to fail svr resembles a high speed collision henry spencer u of toronto zoology between svr and sunos dick dunn henry zoo toronto edu utzoo henry
