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It'd be interesting to do and something to make me get some 'flight time'. I could give the XR- series and Shuttle some practice, but for now it's just DGIV.

Oops, sorry. Looks like I misread part of the article. The concept doesn't sound so bad now. It does seem like a future that maybe even in human interplanetary travel that re-usable deep space transports would make sense more than single-use so testing out the limits of how long these space...

I can't imagine that flying what will be 30-40 year old modules in deep space to Mars to be a very intelligent idea. Hell, all those problems Mir had multiplied. Hope NASA can get funding to operate the ISS longer than 2015. It seems a waste to only use a product that could take 13 years to...

Maybe Buzz and convince God to make sure the next messiah is Zefram Cochrane. :P Anyway here's some artwork for some possible inspiration: http://media.popularmechanics.com/documents/Mars.pdf Well, I guess that's it. I do imagine all a cycler would need is a habitation module, docking module...

Well, they say all humor is sadness. It's a good thing this could never happen! :lol:

I do wonder if Buzz players Orbiter in his free time. You never know... :) Anyway, I've google and found some links and later on in the break I'll try to read them. Unfortunately it seems some of it might be a little technical for me. Regardless, I did skim through one and it does have some dV...

First off I hope I'm not posting too late for this to be considered reviving a dead thread. Anyway, I keep finding this idea intriguing. I'd imagine to be semi-realistic it'd help with the radiation shielding issue since you only need one heavy habitat instead of one for each mission. What I'm...

Assuming RINC is low, another method to catch-up or slow-down to Mir is to circularize your orbit (get your eccentricity near zero, or ApA and PeA close to each other). This means Sync MFD won't work so well because your orbits won't intersect, but don't worry, that's for later. Then go to...

Apparently Orbiter doesn't take too well with trying to change the orbits of space stations via the DGIV. The spinning wreckage from the DGIV and Mir re-entering the atmosphere was so intense it crashed Orbiter, so I guess that's the equivalent of destroying the universe. :P

:rofl: Now usually I think it's been overdone, but this truely seems to be what they call "epic fail". Anyway, right now I've been trying to perfect my re-entries before I go onto interplanetary travel, so my blunders have been limited to winding up a 1000 km from my landing zone and having to...

Now that the launch has happened, is there much to watch for on the online feeds until they rendezvous with Hubble?

I don't know, I just don't too much to be computer controlled. The whole spam in a can thing. If it's not a complete PITA to do, might as well do it manually. :)

Now that sounds like cheating! ;) Oh, I know those MFDs are fine but I've been warned about trusting those conniving computers too much...

Since there's a thread about it, I won't mind asking if there's a way to get the correct azimuth or roll attitude without an MFD. I guess I've got some paranoia of being too dependent on those things. :P

Just for clarification, CRS is just for resupply, and COTS is for crew? Isn't the $1 bn difference in cancelling CRS and extending the Shuttle even less because NASA won't have to buy as many (or any, depending on the number of flights) seats on Soyuz? I like this, if it can reduce the gap...

I'm a little curious how NASA is part of the problem? Are they preventing commercial enterprises from getting in space? They do buy the services of commercial launchers for their probes into space, so I'd say that's a boon. Anyway, I'm not sure STS was to blame, but in light of those...

Maybe instead of, or with luck, flexibility would help too? The managers of a program can't control luck, but one than can adapt to what else is going on, like cut-backs won't suffer so badly. Practically skipping the Moon and going to Mars could mean that after some cut-backs we have nothing...

Bah, I'm apparently a liberal... boring! I thought computer chips were made from sand more than rocks.

Rocks... that's what computers are made from?

Nearly finished with The Right Stuff - fun read. Wondering just how accurate the novel is because I noticed one or two errors that then seemed fixed later on, so possibly more of an editing mistake than factual error. John Glenn seems like a bit of an uptight jerk, no wonder he became a...