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French people sent a cat.

We know caves are possible, because there is one cave on tylo. Why aren't there more though?

An ipad could probably run it and control it.

Well, he was trained. Though the reward system broke down and ended up shocking him for doing the correct things. Though if I was exposed to 14.7 gfees I also would lose interest in cooperating

Sometime later, after his flight, he was shown the spacecraft and it was visually apparent he had no further interest in cooperating with the program. - actual NASA report on mercury redstone 2

Might want some more cloths due to the acid...

Part 2:Skylab Then the Skylab mission was launched, on a Saturn 5 instead of a Nova.

Then you just have more protection from debris than you need. Doesn't seem enough to merit such a huge increase in cost. Its ion propulsion, so they can afford the tiny mass increase than LEO debris would require.

What do you mean? If you mean radiation, then there the "shooting soldiers to study wound pathology" objection again.

I agree with this, but it would be much cheaper to test in LEO.

Yes, but there is no need for the DSG then.

That is Mars direct. file:///C:/Users/dlabr/Downloads/Duggan_8-9-17.pdf http://spirit.as.utexas.edu/~fiso/telecon/Duggan_8-9-17/Duggan_8-9-17.pdf

Zubrin says that the SLS could do a 3 launch Mars mission. One launch for a MAV, another for a spare MAV, and a small transfer vehicle. It would also be cheaper to do 26 launches with a FH than 13 with an SLS.

13 launches just for a Mars orbit mission???? And another several for a Mars lander? Plus, the Moon lander is two stage, so it can't be reused.

@MatterBeamThe name came from Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space, a 1993 free game that also inspired the @Angel-125 BARIS mod. It was a real concept though. Yes. The only stage that was really overpowered was the return stage.

Th e second cold war was quite warm. There had been constant battle for 28 years now, but not a single casualty. Yet. At any moment, the balance could shift and millions could die. For the war was fought not by men, but by mass produced machines known as the L.A.W.s. Lethal Autonomous Weapons. Millions of them, assembled in hundreds of factories in the Alliance, the RE, and the NAE. NAE just wanted to stop a war, so their drones attacked both parties’ drones, but posed no threat to the countries themselves. At first analysts thought the RE would surely win, as they poured far more money into factories, while the Alliance was doing social programs and urban improvement. But the technologically superior Alliance had fast 3-d printing. One printer could output a foot long quadcopter fighter in ten minutes flat. A typical factory had ten thousand smaller printers, and a hundred large drone printers. The drones constantly clashed over the Atlantic. They recharged at unmanned airships that were covered in solar panels. The drones were fairly independent. But the tactics and strategy were decided remotely, by the airships’ supercomputers.

So it might provide support for lunar missions? They have to decide or it will be cancelled.

Actually, NASA doesn't plan to land until 2043. But even boeing thinks it will happen 10 years sooner.

I highly doubt it will happen in the 30s, because it will happen in 2024.

Even with chemical rockets and existing tech, we could have landed on Mars in the 80s. In fact, that was the plan until the space funding got cut at the end of apollo. We could certainly do it today, and cheaper, now that we have reusable launchers, better computers, and inflatable habitats.

We went to the moon with 1960s computers and no reusable rockets. That's my point. NASA isn't making real progress. Wouldn't a manned mars mission give even more jobs though?

Recreated the apollo direct ascent proposal.

The original four(Jeb, Bill, Bob, Val) went on a no docking mission to the mun in the newly developed jupiter capsule. T+1 Nova liftoff confirmed. 11 vector engines provide 10.3 meganewtons of thrust. T+ 1:14 Stage separation and gravity turn. Jupiter with TMI stage in munar orbit. TMI! A free return trajectory was maintained at all times. After 1 course correction, the third stage was jettisoned before orbital insertion. Landing site: the farside crater. Approaching: Looking for a crater to land in: The fuel was well measured, so the flight computer's suicide burn times had to be followed. Only a few seconds of fuel left Landed! Now for a group surface photo(Val stayed in case a quick abort was needed) It was time to go. The next mission would be two person, so they would have more resources and could stay longer. Pull up! Departing the Mun: Jettison of return stage: Safe: Safe... Jeb could get in touch with the KSC, but then the usual helicopter drone showed up and took them back home. The KSC had been invaded by the Koviet Union. Jeb was told he could be a pilot for them in exchange for his release. He agreed, and was told to come the the VAB roof to watch some RUD. He assumed a minor building would be destroyed and replaced. But it didn't mean rapid unscheduled disassembly. It meant rapid unscheduled defenestration.