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    NASA would be happy to launch a couple dozen 9 meter telescopes... If the only cost er trip is fuel, then at current methane prices, it wouldn't be that expensive.
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    How long would it take for the oceans to freeze without the sun?
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    At Venus, you also get plenty of gravity unlike Mercury and Mars. And plenty of fertilizer chemicals. And you can aerobrake.
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    Then go to 55 km.
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    There Ain't No Stealth/Sound In Space
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    Unless your Jeb. I think the tech tree is fine, except for the antennas. The science expense for those antennas mean I can't send any long range probes.
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    https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20160006580.pdf
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    Not for new companies no. I can imagine trying to start an aerospace company on kickstarter. This might be true for some tourists, but there are definitely a significant amount who will like the adventure.
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    I know. The amount of hype and over emotion is that video is comically high
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    Maybe we should be allowed to use LRBs, but no asparagus?
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    https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20160006329.pdf https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20160006580.pdf
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    ! What's the point then? If it could launch even twice a year it might be occasionally better than the FH or the NG, but once a year isn't good for anything!
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    TANSIS. You guys should read the project rho page on it.
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    Actually, they have. The russian Vega missions successfully deployed two balloons into the atmosphere.
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    It has been studied though. I also fail to see how Mercury is easier than Mars though.
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    Yes, but SpaceX and soon BO will have fully capable launch vehicles of there own. (SpaceX cgi is better) (I think its a bit disappointing that on the 50th anniversary of apollo 11, NASA will be doing an unmanned, suborbital flight.)
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    True. With a solar sail, you might manage a soil sample, but overall, unless there's ice and you do a lot of slingshots, its a one way trip. Airships exist...
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    I agree, but unlike the last space race, we have private space companies. Yes, I know that the Apollo rockets were made mostly by private companies, but today we have companies that make their rockets independently. A space race could mean a large government fund given to Musk.
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    I agree, however, if China ever says its going to Mars by a certain date, the US would try their best to beat them.
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    The questions here are supposed to be kind of absurd...so what if the Earth's mantle was magically replaced with an equal volume of water? What exotic ices would form?
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    I've actually never built an SSTO before... but the other people doing this challenge might want to know.
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    That's exactly what I said...I meant the ITS ship will use some of its own fuel to circularize.
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    Where is the highest mountain on Tylo?
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