To: Tax-chick; SandyInSeattle; Dead Corpse; King Prout
The shuttle on the lower right, shown here, is the closest to my vision for the ones we will use.
The wings may seem useless for this mission, but on the return trip, should the need arise, we can use them as emergency escape vessels for Earth atmospheric re-entry. Each shuttle has two Gas Cooled Nuclear Reactor/Rocket Engines, and they tap into the on-board reaction tanks during rocket firing.
33,906 posted on
07/16/2005 7:52:07 AM PDT by
NicknamedBob
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To: Tax-chick; SandyInSeattle; Dead Corpse; King Prout
That stubby cylindrical shape on the lower left, if you scaled up its relative size by ten times, would correspond to the excursion module.
Picture six of the shuttles attached around it centrally like rocket motors, and you'll have the concept of our journey.
The NASA package will be in the aft section, and we'll try to scoop up some of that South Lunar Pole water-ice, if we find any. NASA will want to study that. I guess the rest of it will be picture-taking, and just to say we've been there.
33,908 posted on
07/16/2005 8:05:17 AM PDT by
NicknamedBob
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