On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Alan B. Pearce wrote: >>Not really. Not when you account for ancillary costs power/weight etc. >>Apollo missions used fuel cells afaik, and only one ever went bad afaik. > >And as I understood it that failed only because of damage that had occurred >when it was dropped at some stage during the assembly of the spacecraft. I have no info on that, I was under the impression it was related to the accident on the moon mission where they nearly got killed. Peter -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body