Manned Earth Landing

[Souper]

I propose we take on the most daring of all planetary landings.

We will land on the surface of Earth, a planet with medium temperatures, high unforgiving gravity, and a somewhat thick atmosphere.

Weather on Earth is incredibly energetic, some winds are able to knock a full-grown man over.

The oceans are even more unforgiving, with intense pressures that nothing could ever hope to withstand.

How will we get there, you ask? We have a plan.

we'll get to Orbit, go interplanetary, slingshot around Venus, then to Mars, then to Io, then to Earth.

We will areocapture around it, and send down a lander. The lander will look like this:

It will even have a small rover attached to it.

Picture:

As you can imagine, all this stuff is really high-tech. Once we land on Earth, we will begin looking for signs of life on this mysterious bluegreen planet. Once the lander gets back to the orbiting mothership, it will use Earth's only moon as a slingshot back to Earth.

A surface walk was always highly debated, as we'd not need to wear a spacesuit of any kind. This is bad, as not wearing a spacesuit dosn't look cool at all. To top that off ,we'd be dealing with over 1 g of acceleration! That's too high!

We'd need a gun, a backpack, and some snacks.

Edited October 20, 2014 by Souper

[Streetwind]

...Are you drunk, sir?

[Vanamonde]

Well, it doesn't belong in Science Labs, anyway.

[megatiger78]

yes it does..... THIS IS A GENIUS IDEA

[Javster]

A RC boat would work better, most of that planet is water!

[Pipcard]

One of our space probes has already detected signs of life on the planet designated as "Earth"

[cantab]

With something like a 10 km/s delta-V requirement to return to orbit we'll definitely need to develop an ISRU system. Fortunately orbital scans have revealed the planet is full of small sources of petroleum vapours, principally octane and decane. We suspect these sources are leaks from small underground stores that could be tapped. Development of a rocket engine that can run on octane and liquefied Earth air should be expedited.

[megatiger78]

I believe that if we could create an engine running on the air and some fuel stolen from the potential inhabitants, we could make it most of the way up...... or make it a colony mission......

[astropapi1]

I love this. Really puts it in perspective.

[megatiger78]

puts what in perspective? also this is genuine science. maybe the ksp community cubesat could be used for planning....

[CDK]

Cool rover. That looks like a long time of building to make that rover.

[Pipcard]

(xkcd 1231)

[megatiger78]

yeah that was how it happened BUT THIS IS SERRIOUS SCIENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT BLEONGS IN THE SCIENCE LABS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!