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To: Tax-chick
We should certainly take cheese. As to moose, does it taste like ham?

We'll have a restricted amount of space, and will have to limit the number of people to no more than one hundred.

We'll use a well-stocked food pantry, CO2 scrubbers, all the typical accoutrements of places like the shuttle or the ISS, but we shouldn't have to put up with zero-gee, just reduced gravity.

I'm picturing a six-sided vessel with six of the shuttle-thrusters for propulsion, and six internal pressurized tanks, four for reaction gas, one just for make-up Oxygen, and one for regular compressed air.

By being under continuous thrust, we'll also shave about four days off the typical Lunar journey, but it will still take about a week or so.

There would be a bit of extra acceleration pressure at the beginning and ending of the journey, but most of the trip will be in reduced gravity. You and little Whoosis want to come along?

33,903 posted on 07/16/2005 7:25:34 AM PDT by NicknamedBob (Mighty and enduring? They are but toys of the moment to be overturned by the flicking of a finger.)
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33,911 posted on 07/16/2005 8:11:01 AM PDT by Lady Jag (Honor - Dignity - Courage - Loyalty)
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