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Should we start a Kickstarter to launch a bus into space?

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  1. 1. Should we start a Kickstarter to launch a bus into space?


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Omicron314

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If we're going to raise the money to launch a bus into space, why not, you know, an actual satellite? No idea what it would be useful for, though.

EDIT: A Falcon 9 launch costs 56.5 million dollars. If all 96000 members of this forum donated an equal amount of money (highly unlikely), that's still about 600 dollars each. You would need to garner a lot of outside support for that, although admittedly a satellite (or even space bus) owned by the KSP community would be pretty neat.

Also, where would we get the bus? That's probably costs a substantial amount as well.

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7499275

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Here is an idea. As stated above why not launch an actual satellite, why not in all seriousness launch a satellite that can transmit (live) camera feed back to the KSP website. We have all seen those amazing shots the ISS takes facing Earth. Why don't we launch a satellite that has a camera and can send the video back to the website so we can watch it? Maybe have another camera that can be adjusted by who ever maintains the satellite to watch comets as they come close to earth or rocket launches from space?

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xzxvrx

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Here is an idea. As stated above why not launch an actual satellite, why not in all seriousness launch a satellite that can transmit (live) camera feed back to the KSP website. We have all seen those amazing shots the ISS takes facing Earth. Why don't we launch a satellite that has a camera and can send the video back to the website so we can watch it? Maybe have another camera that can be adjusted by who ever maintains the satellite to watch comets as they come close to earth or rocket launches from space?

Because we could eventually convert the bus into a lifting body for manned flight.

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Because we could eventually convert the bus into a lifting body for manned flight.

Manned flight is a bad idea. The cost (in both mass and resources,) would be far greater than any benefit. We'd have to modify the bus, run numerous tests on it, have it meed manned flight certifications, likely go back and adjust things because we didn't get something right. And that's before we develop a spacesuit or life support system.

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NASAFanboy

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Still bad idea.

Why a freaking bus? That's not supposed to go to space. How about we put the money to good use and buy a fleet of Cubesats with models of kerbalnauts attached? And if it does become useful, its going to require modifications that will make it lose its bus shape, not that I would miss it anyway (It simply doesn't belong there. Not pleaseing in the slightest bit to my space aesthetic tastes).

No way, no how. Funding cubesats would be better use of money, or maybe have SpaceX launch a single cubesat with a model of Mk1 pod to the moon?

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