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ANNOUNCEMENT This forum thread will be put on hold for the time being, since I'm starting to get a little bit burnt out from writing and stuff. This doesn't mean it will die like the other threads I've made
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One Giant Leap | An Alternate History of Space Exploration
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SATURN III | LDM-1 - PART I Following a five-year hiatus after the last flight, new upgrades to Saturn III will be implemented following LDM-1 under a new Saturn III+ variant, these upgrades include: - New software-based guidance system serving as an addition to the current Inertial Guidance System - Improved engines on EDS - Extended First Stage Tanks Alongside the selection and finalization of both NASA's Crewed Exploration Vehicle (CEV), and the Human Landing System (HLS) programs, Saturn III will once again demononstrate a new capability turning it from a standard Heavy Lifter into a Crew-Rated Launcher able to send a 5 man crew to the Moon and beyond using the brand-new National Team/Lockheed CEV "Odysseus". With everything coming together Saturn III will be scheduled to launch on March 27, 2004 carrying Odysseus to the Moon and back. Marking this flight as the last standard Saturn III flight, all launches moving forward will be carried on the new and improved Saturn III+ Mission Profile: LDM-1 will follow a similar flight path to its earlier predecessor (CFT-2) all the way to Low Earth Orbit, but instead of taking a single orbit to execute a Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) maneuver, the Saturn III second stage stack will coast for about two-and-a-half orbits around Earth, executing TLI at T+2 hours and six minutes sending Odysseus on a six-day journey to the Moon Upon reaching the Moon, Odysseus will perform a Lunar Orbit Insertion Maneuver entering a stable low orbit around the moon of 75x96km and will remain there for 45 days simulating a future crewed lunar mission. Odysseus will perform a Trans-Earth Injection (TEI) maneuver with a projected landing spot 400 miles east of the Australian Coast Aerial View of Saturn III, March 25. 2004, T-minus 2 days "T-Minus nine minutes and counting" [...] "TLS Autosequence has been initiated" "twelve, eleven, ten, nine, eight.. We have a go for Main Engine Start.." "five, four, three, two, one..." "We Have Booster Ignition and Liftoff of The Third Flight of the Saturn III Rocket Carrying Odysseus To The Moon As We Continue to build Our Future in Space" "Houston Now Controlling the Flight of Saturn III" "One Minute into the flight the main engines beginning to rev up to full throttle 104% of rated performance" "Two Minutes Thirty-eight seconds into the flight [...] Saturn III ten miles in altitude eleven miles downrange" "Standing by for Solid Rocket Booster separation coming up in about [...] nine seconds" "Booster Officer here in Mission Control reports a good Solid Rocket Booster separation [...] Saturn III thirty-eight miles in altitude fifty miles downrange" "Seven minutes into the flight Mission Officer reports a good Launch Abort System Separation" "Saturn III travelling at a speed of more than three miles per second at the moment" [...] "less than a minute away from Main Engine Cut off Saturn III seven hundred-fifty miles downrange" "Flight Controllers here in Mission Control confirms Main Engine Cutoff and Separation of The Second Stage" "Mission control now has confirmation of a successful engine ignition on the Second Stage nine minutes ten seconds into the flight" "Odysseus now eighty miles in altitude nine hundred miles downrange" "Flight Controllers here in Mission Control confirms a successful service module fairing separation ten minutes twenty seconds into the flight" "And we have the first Second Engine Cutoff eleven minutes into the flight Odysseus travelling at eight thousand seven hundred miles per hour" [Switchover from NASA Narrator to Mission Control] "Verifying flight systems one hour fifty minutes before TLI" "All flight systems good thirty-five minutes before TLI" [Switchover from Mission Control to NASA Narrator] "Flight Teams here at Houston standing by for Second Engine Start propelling Odysseus to the moon two hours five minutes into the flight" "And we have confirmation of a successful Second Engine Start two hours six minutes into the flight" "Flight Teams here at Mission Control confirms a successful Engine Cutoff two hours ten minutes into the flight" [Switchover from NASA Narrator to Mission Control] "Odysseus Separation Confirmed"
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