Back to the Mars One vehicle, I added the metal skin to the Hab, Lab and Storage modules. It is chrome plumbers tape, again. I love this stuff. It can be smooth or wrinkled depending on what effect you want.
Quote from: Ronpur50 on 04/09/2015 04:23 pmBack to the Mars One vehicle, I added the metal skin to the Hab, Lab and Storage modules. It is chrome plumbers tape, again. I love this stuff. It can be smooth or wrinkled depending on what effect you want.I'm beginning to wonder if we should try to do a Kickstarter for a return to the moon, let alone go on to Mars.The only real issue I had with the book that you're basing your main models on is the developement that would have been required for the Manned Mars lander. It would have required at least a couple of flights just to Man Rate it, so there wouldn't have been enough Saturn V's at the end of the run to launch everything needed for the Mars landing.Unless of course the Saturn V line was restarted, that is.
Quote from: JasonAW3 on 04/09/2015 06:00 pmQuote from: Ronpur50 on 04/09/2015 04:23 pmBack to the Mars One vehicle, I added the metal skin to the Hab, Lab and Storage modules. It is chrome plumbers tape, again. I love this stuff. It can be smooth or wrinkled depending on what effect you want.I'm beginning to wonder if we should try to do a Kickstarter for a return to the moon, let alone go on to Mars.The only real issue I had with the book that you're basing your main models on is the developement that would have been required for the Manned Mars lander. It would have required at least a couple of flights just to Man Rate it, so there wouldn't have been enough Saturn V's at the end of the run to launch everything needed for the Mars landing.Unless of course the Saturn V line was restarted, that is.In Voyage, the remaining Saturn Vs left after Apollo 14 were used for Moonlab missions and Apollo-N. The Saturn VB vehicles were a new line of uprated Saturns. And two manned test flights of the MEM were made, one orbital with an Apollo CSM and another landing test that was flown by John Young. There was discussion earlier in the book of just trying to use the remaining Sat Vs for Ares, and no new construction, but that changed with the Saturn VB and the fear of another disaster. Other upgrades included making the Apollo capsule reusable and modular. That way, with the 30+ Skylab and Moonlab long duration missions, the spacecraft would be recycled. Those were known as the Block III and Ares used a Block IV Apollo.And I wish kickstarter could generate that much money!