Werner Von Braun's Mars mission outline included a rotating craft for the long transit to Mars (and back). The one I remember (before PowerPoint, there were plastic overlays in the encyclopedia, btw, youngsters) used a boom that was extended to balance the crew areas.
SpaceX Starship and The Von Braun Rotating Space Station | The Gateway Foundation | Published on Feb 15, 2019
1 posted on
02/23/2019 10:42:04 AM PST by
SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
Beresheet means “in the beginning”, i.e. the book of Genesis.
2 posted on
02/23/2019 10:44:31 AM PST by
fishtank
(The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
To: SunkenCiv
It’s safer for Israelis to travel to the moon than to Gaza or Palestinian areas of the West Bank.
To: SunkenCiv
Beresheet wasn’t even the primary mission, but it’s getting all the press.
8 posted on
02/23/2019 11:15:25 AM PST by
Moonman62
(Facts are racist.)
To: SunkenCiv
the privatization space travel is interesting, I wonder what it may lead to.....?
15 posted on
02/23/2019 11:39:48 AM PST by
faithhopecharity
( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
29 posted on
02/24/2019 1:39:10 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
(and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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