Comments on: Station MOON http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/10/17/station-moon/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:26:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Thundercat http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/10/17/station-moon/#comment-612235 Thundercat Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:59:56 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/10/17/station-moon/#comment-612235 Impressive. A 50 lb rocket (with fuel) capable of landing a 50 lb payload on the moon. Somehow I think that rocket wouldn't get more than 20 feet off the ground before it ran out of fuel. Maybe they were figuring on using super space-age ATOM power! Impressive. A 50 lb rocket (with fuel) capable of landing a 50 lb payload on the moon.

Somehow I think that rocket wouldn’t get more than 20 feet off the ground before it ran out of fuel. Maybe they were figuring on using super space-age ATOM power!

]]> By: JMyint http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/10/17/station-moon/#comment-611923 JMyint Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:08:02 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/10/17/station-moon/#comment-611923 Hmm, Whoever wrote the article seemed to be just making things up. Even Jules Verne knew that a spacecraft would have to travel at 25,000 miles per hour to escape the earth, and Hohmann transfer orbits were first calculated in the 1920's. Looking it up in my "Spaceship Handbook" (I know GEEEK!) the most economical trip to the moon requires a delta V of 16.48 miles per second and a transit time of 8.5 days. They knew these things even in the 1940's. Hmm, Whoever wrote the article seemed to be just making things up. Even Jules Verne knew that a spacecraft would have to travel at 25,000 miles per hour to escape the earth, and Hohmann transfer orbits were first calculated in the 1920’s.

Looking it up in my “Spaceship Handbook” (I know GEEEK!) the most economical trip to the moon requires a delta V of 16.48 miles per second and a transit time of 8.5 days. They knew these things even in the 1940’s.

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