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jimmymcgoochie

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“We can’t put a Mercury on a Pathfinder rocket! It’s slightly too wide!”

But it had 9500m/s of delta-V and combined with the Mercury retro pack would probably make orbit! Just tweak the uppermost tank to be slightly narrower at the top to fit the pod’s diameter and you’d be good to go.

Re. those parachutes, pretty sure you’re meant to stage them sequentially and staging the main chute will also decouple the part with the drogue on it; at least that’s how the Gemini one worked and it’s a pretty similar layout.

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Ev-GEN-i-ya. Soft g, last two syllables like Siberia.

I can’t help feeling that you could have saved a lot of money by using integral rather than balloon tanks on the new rocket, it’s cheaper to tool, cheaper and faster to make and the delta-V difference isn’t that significant on a rocket that size- especially when you have over 1km/s of spare fuel in LEO.

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