Fly to the moon for £100 million
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/9342210/F...
Might buy a euro millions ticket this weekend.
Not sure if this is just publicity seeking or the real thing. Sounds very cheap and I'm not sure if I have the balls to fly it myself.
Might buy a euro millions ticket this weekend.
Not sure if this is just publicity seeking or the real thing. Sounds very cheap and I'm not sure if I have the balls to fly it myself.
'The company has acquired a fleet of former Soviet shuttles and space stations'
Crikey!
'The flight, which would last four months and fly past the moon at a distance of 1000km...'
Apollo did it in about four days and landed. Taking four months and missing by 1000km isn't quite the same... and how do they carry enough food and oxygen for four months?
Crikey!
'The flight, which would last four months and fly past the moon at a distance of 1000km...'
Apollo did it in about four days and landed. Taking four months and missing by 1000km isn't quite the same... and how do they carry enough food and oxygen for four months?
Totally agree it does look awesome but all 4 of the N1 rockets catastrophically exploded on launch or on take off. The longest one flew, was a minute and forty seconds.
The fuel lines and system were massivly complicated due to its 30 engines and due to its size, it had to be dismantled and re-built again on the launch site, which led to imperfections afterwards.
The fuel lines and system were massivly complicated due to its 30 engines and due to its size, it had to be dismantled and re-built again on the launch site, which led to imperfections afterwards.
Its easy to laugh at Russian kit but think of this- Western stuff is designed/made by the lowest bidder, Russian stuff was designed by people who where afraid of being shot in the head if they got things wrong and embarrassed Mother Russia :-)
The 100million moon shot (from the IOM company) does sound sbit unlikely but the kit they are suggesting using was solid when it was made, the Alama stations formed the basis of Mir and the first section of the ISS and its still in orbit 12yrs on... you could choose worse hardware as a basis IMO.
The 100million moon shot (from the IOM company) does sound sbit unlikely but the kit they are suggesting using was solid when it was made, the Alama stations formed the basis of Mir and the first section of the ISS and its still in orbit 12yrs on... you could choose worse hardware as a basis IMO.
jmorgan said:
I know we've been conditioned by successful US designs of rockets but the N1 always looked wrong to me.If the engineering quality had been better could it have worked or was it the design that was to blame?
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