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RE: SpaceX moon trip 2018
March 4, 2017 at 11:40 am
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Quote:An Airplane won't do much good, no atmosphere worth mentioning.
It's been calculated that, of all the bodies in the solar system with an appreciable atmosphere, an airplane would work best on Titan (battery powered, you couldn't use regular combustible fuels). Surface pressure 50% more than Earth, with a lower gravity, means that your take-off speed would be about the same as a fast jogging pace.
Second best would be Venus. Of course, your plane would be on fire the whole time, then the plane's systems would fail, then it would stop being a plane.
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RE: SpaceX moon trip 2018
March 4, 2017 at 11:55 am
(March 4, 2017 at 11:24 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: (March 4, 2017 at 11:16 am)AFTT47 Wrote: From nasaspaceflight.com:
So no lunar orbit. This will be the deepest humans have ever flown into space by far.
How much does the capsule mass at departure from LEO?
No mention of that.
Here is the article.
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RE: SpaceX moon trip 2018
March 4, 2017 at 2:04 pm
Well, I think if I went, my chief responsibility would be not getting vomit all over the altimeter.
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