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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: [QB] This reminds me a LOT of the rocket museums they have in Houston and Huntsville: http://www.geocities.com/jassdude/saturnhunts.html Note that they have a Saturn V on display... Disassembled. Anyway, there's nothing to say that you CAN'T , or DON'T build GCS components on the ground and then heft them into orbit. We've never really seen a starship BUILT at UP, have we? Only under repair, or arguably being fitted out for active duty (Voyager et. al.). Would it make more sense to build a starship's major components in atmosphere, or (as the tech manuals imply) to build them wholesale in orbit? There's a fairly lackluster early DS9 novel that deals with the reactivation of the Bajoran shipyards after the Cardassians left it. In particular, they were tasked with building an older-model Federation starship, the Ambassador-class USS Hannibal, from the keel up as a test to see if they could support Starfleet designs. It was a gound-based facility that used massive tractor beams to launch a completed starship into orbit upon completion. A lofty concept (sic), but not wholly impossible these days... Mark [/QB][/QUOTE]
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