Posted on 05/15/2013 11:33:40 AM PDT by EveningStar
A private space exploration company's plans to build a novel moonship to return human explorers to the lunar surface has moved one step closer to reality.
Aerospace giant Northrop Grumman has completed a lunar lander feasiblity study for the Golden Spike Company, which aims to begin ferrying paying customers to the moon and back by 2020.
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They need to send robots, 3-d Printers and smelters to the moon first....
Remotely build the base, THEN send the people....
Exploration: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjO2Q0kfETo
Exploration with President for Life Obama: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcS8-EMEJf8
Re: Picture No. 3
YouTube video of prototype Boeing 707 being rolled:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra_khhzuFlE
It’s a Falcon 9 5m fairing.
Interesting. Would work with F-Heavy, have to look at escape capability for F9. Pretty light payload, maybe.
Cheap in either case.
Only one thing missing from the design - reentry into Earth’s atmosphere. Descent module stays on the moon, ascent module has no heat shield. I assume they intend to dock with ISS or some other vehicle with reentry capability.
Unless somebody does something, you expect to see a lot of Apollo mission relics showing up on eBay and Craig’s List.
LOL.
And they’ll be signed by Buzz Aldrin! For just a little extra!
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