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Bill Phil

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  1. Yes, I believe so. If I remember right it takes very little energy compared to L1 and 2.
  2. Well.... If you want THAT.... It'll have to be a setup like in 2001. An orbiting station acting as a way station for lunar ferries. The only difference is there may be a fueling station in a halo orbit around the Lagrange point close to the moon, forgot its name...
  3. Standardization of the system. Standard tank diameters, standard engine mounts for a given load, etc. Then standardize the individual components of the rocket engines themselves. Turbopumps, chambers, the connections in between, etc. Should help to reduce development time and cost per engine. Might take a whirl to get the ball rolling, though.
  4. Well, the SLS is a very different launch vehicle. It has a liquid hydrogen fueled core stage. Just a trip to the moon? No landing necessary? A soyuz slapped onto a few different transfer stages would do the trick, using Fregat for trans-earth injection. I'd say at least a billion dollars, probably much more.
  5. So, what happened to part highlighting? That was a really good feature idea. I was flying a LKO mission. My upper stage was running on fumes. I was relying on a sequence of Sepratrons to de orbit, but I messed up the staging. I went through three tries to finally get it right. But it was a very kerbal thing to do and was quite hilarious. But I also noticed that there was no part highlighting when hovering the mouse over the staging icon. It was the usual glow. I can't help but think that helped cause it...
  6. 1027: You suddenly find yourself in black and white, and you hear an eerily familiar tune...... That's it! You snap your fingers as you remember. That tune is The Twilight Zone....
  7. Waffles. It's like pancakes, but easier to use. Btw, Do we like waffles!!!????
  8. Just hit the ln button on your calculator. Or, if you do want paper: get mass ratio Find nearest power of 3. It should be a decent estimate. After that, multiply be ISP and 9.8
  9. Utilitarian. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Basically very dull. Unless I'm recreating a real life space craft.
  10. Thd rings could be a new anomaly.... I don't know really. It would be really interesting, though.
  11. I think it's either settings or My Profile button. Are you using phone version?
  12. They got the job done, but they weren't that amazing. The Mk1 pod in the link looks great, but we all know that that's a newer creation. Maybe have a very inefficient fuel tank that has a similar theme on the first tech level. But that's all I will accept. Although, a 1.25 meter 3 kerbal no-Eva pod would be interesting. You would need another crew part to EVA, kind of like Soyuz.
  13. I wonder... Perhaps the Nazcans had a coordinate system like us. Who let them do this, though?
  14. If by centrifugal force you mean the force of acceleration due to rotation... Well, orbits only exist because of that. So, yes? Unless you mean that the force is actually felt, then no.
  15. Well, I was flying my K-15 Jet around the world, when all of a sudden the jet's engine puttered out. Later it was determined that the problem was because of a lack if oxygen. The craft entered into a flat spin. Spinning faster and faster and faster until the pilot managed to ignite the engines. The craft began to stabilize, but it was flying straight down. In the last 1000 meters the K-15 managed to pull up........and flattened out at less than 100 meters. The mission continued until the K-15 crashed in the desert on a landing attempt.
  16. Maybe we're in a low-entropy part of the universe, and the universe decided to increase entropy here. I don't know, just a thought.
  17. People would say that it was staged. The astronauts could've climbed in before filming on the last one, they could be faking it with the first one, and artificial signal delay could mimic them "on Mars".
  18. Asteroids/comets, really. Landing on a planet and bringing up that much of any resource? Not anytime soon.
  19. Hmm, maybe Genetically Modified Algae? It could also be a food source.
  20. Well, the ISP is dependent on thrust and mass-flow. So if you can find the thrust you should get a good estimate. Btw, what about expansion ratio?
  21. Well, there's an idea for the Kerbal god of Rocketry: All hail Thrust, the mighty ruler of rockets!
  22. Jool-5 is harder, but the total Dv required for Eve round trip is probably higher. Jool-5 requires you to land on 5 moons, and plus you may use gravity assists and other fancy maneuvers which take a lot of skill to perform.
  23. ASTP? That happened. Bit the Cold War did too. Plus, the US had plans to cooperate with the USSR for a joint moon landing project. But Kennedy was assassinated, and that idea was postponed.
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