Idea XR-5 Tourist Payload?

[wehaveaproblem]

Of course there would need to be some assumption of privacy for those who'd want to join the 50 mile high club...

I saw a documentary that looked into um... mature content in space.. and the difficulties, or perhaps interesting challenges, of such endevours.

One space ship design had a pressurised glass bubble on the edge of the ship, for the real karmaspacetra experience!

Idon't think I'll be modelling that lol.

 

[FarOutInFernley]

the modular system is a frickin EXCELLENT idea, it honestly would be amazing to open the bay doors of the xr 5 and see people floating around and going from tube to tube....

 

[JackJL]

I saw a documentary that looked into um... mature content in space.. and the difficulties, or perhaps interesting challenges, of such endevours.

One space ship design had a pressurised glass bubble on the edge of the ship, for the real karmaspacetra experience!

Idon't think I'll be modelling that lol.

Another reason I wanted the cabins to have a lot of airspace, with the flat-ish beds and the planned padded walls. I don't think a bubble would be a good idea, think of everyone at the other windows please! :embarrassed:

Also

Some quick calculations show about 12 economy class seats or 6 business class in one container. Also with the modular idea you could find room for a big centrifuge with a swimming pool in the bay!

 

[PhantomCruiser]

I wouldn't think the XR-5 would be able to hold a centrifuge big enough to support a pool... I mean, the thing is cavernous, but to support a 1G environment the centrifuge would have to be pretty big (I've got the formula somewhere).
I'd leave the centrifuge to a space station (a-la 2001's Station 5, or the Hammerhead station that I got somewhere...)

Th HOOPS system could tie into the luxury module pretty well I think. The crew has the HOOPS to allow for more room, and the passengers still have plenty of cargo bay space for their accomodations.
When the flight is over the luxury module can be removed at the processing facility if need be, and swapped out for different "mission" cargo.

 

[N_Molson]

Well, vertical beds sort of suck when you're landed anywhere and the crew needs to sleep...

That's a point. The beds could be put in "horizontal" position on the ground. I guess they could be attached with velcro straps to the wall, that would be rather simple & cheap.

You would have to attach them on the "back (Z axis)" wall, if not the accelerations could unstrap the beds. The pilot can have to make an emergency correction course after all. With the beds on the back wall, people would just be pressed against the bed. Much like on Earth !

 

[wehaveaproblem]

Th HOOPS system could tie into the luxury module pretty well I think. The crew has the HOOPS to allow for more room, and the passengers still have plenty of cargo bay space for their accomodations.
When the flight is over the luxury module can be removed at the processing facility if need be, and swapped out for different "mission" cargo.

That is exactly the concept I was working on, yeah. The HOOP itself is designed for extended orbital/lunar missions involving cargo management, hence the arm. I was thinking of making an armless varient designed more toward tourism modules. But thinking about it, an arm could be a useful tool for tourism. Perhaps there can be a small dockable module that the arm can lift out the bay and wave around in space... that would make for a cool experience for a tourist. Or when modules are lifted out and docked to a space hotel and whatnot... hmmm I'm getting ideas! but must finish Ascension... must finish Ascension

 

[JackJL]

I wouldn't think the XR-5 would be able to hold a centrifuge big enough to support a pool... I mean, the thing is cavernous, but to support a 1G environment the centrifuge would have to be pretty big (I've got the formula somewhere).
I'd leave the centrifuge to a space station (a-la 2001's Station 5, or the Hammerhead station that I got somewhere...).

Why do you need 1 g? Just need enough to stick the water to the walls so that you can jump to the centre and be in the air

 

[PhantomCruiser]

Why do you need 1 g? Just need enough to stick the water to the walls so that you can jump to the centre and be in the air

I guess you've got a point, I was just thinking about how problematic that much water could be if it got loose. It's have to be stored in a separate tank during launch and recovery of course.

You'd also have to soze it properly so that if someone did decide to cannonball into the center of the pool, that they wouldn't jump so high as to hit the "ceiling"...
It could be done inside Orbiter for sure.

Wasn't there plans for some sort of centrifuge on the ISS, but were canx'd?

 

[JackJL]

I've found the site I got the idea of a swimming pool from: Space Future. It's quite dated and about twice the size you could fit in an XR5, giving 0.1g at the bottom