(March 4, 2017 at 12:30 am)Fireball Wrote: He can take a copy of the established science from the previous moon missions and save a ton of research time and money. The Saturn V booster and every thing that went with it is public knowledge, and what might not be public knowledge can be deduced via standard math, engineering and physics. We've come a long way in the last 50 years. He's got people from a lot of aerospace companies in the area with the experience necessary. If I hadn't had "golden handcuffs" (too close to retirement to give up the last few years of increasing retirement benefits) at my job when he started up, I'd have jumped ship and gone to work there. Many of my associates did, and they love his company. It'll be interesting to watch, in any event.
Yeah, Saturn 5 also had a 100+ ton lifting capacity to low earth orbit. I want to know the minimum mass that must be lifted into LEO to shoot 2 men around the moon. Which will take 7-8 days, any faster and orbital mechanics say they are not coming back.
