This is rather dragging up old history, but can anyone point me to or summarize the assumptions that went into the old RAC studies of kerolox vehicles? From what I can find, they ended up with vehicles larger than Saturn V, despite lower payload targets and having better engines. Some concepts are on page 10 of the attached PDF.
Quote from: envy887 on 02/16/2017 03:42 pmThis is rather dragging up old history, but can anyone point me to or summarize the assumptions that went into the old RAC studies of kerolox vehicles? From what I can find, they ended up with vehicles larger than Saturn V, despite lower payload targets and having better engines. Some concepts are on page 10 of the attached PDF.I would be curious too, because it seems like a lot of fingers were on the scale to ensure Shuttle evolved components.