A chamber where you are surrounded on all sides by transparent walls, so you can really see space.
Quote from: Twark_Main on 12/16/2022 12:59 amQuote from: JohnFornaro on 12/14/2022 01:15 pmThier station should be located at EML-1 in a Sun Synchronous Precessional Orbit. [SSPO]...just because you fancy the idea? Why not? Glad you asked! [a bunch of reasons]The reason for an EML-1 location has been discussed elsewhere.
Quote from: JohnFornaro on 12/14/2022 01:15 pmThier station should be located at EML-1 in a Sun Synchronous Precessional Orbit. [SSPO]...just because you fancy the idea? Why not? Glad you asked! [a bunch of reasons]
Thier station should be located at EML-1 in a Sun Synchronous Precessional Orbit. [SSPO]
Quote from: Paul451 on 12/18/2022 09:49 pmA chamber where you are surrounded on all sides by transparent walls, so you can really see space.We're gonna hafta wait for Scotty to develop transparent aluminum...I've already stolen the idea of EVA's. Just so ya know.
Do we have any reason to believe that transparent aluminum is superior to polycarbonate and/or fused silica, which are the standard material for space windows?
I love the VAST spinning stick concept. But in a recent discussion on reddit someone claimed, the spinning stick is not stable. It would begin spinning along the long axis too and become instable, so is not feasible.
Good morning. Is the Voyager Station space hotel going to have a floating area where people can just float around? I'm wheelchair bound due to my Quadriplegic Cerebral Palsy and my dream is to go up into outer space because I truly believe that I will have more freedom of movement up there.
I think the biggest challenge for people that don't have the physique (or youth) of the current generation of astronauts, will be in getting to space - rocket launches can be very challenging, but the SpaceX Starship might be able to provide an experience that is more accommodating.
Quote from: Coastal Ron on 02/16/2024 03:44 pmI think the biggest challenge for people that don't have the physique (or youth) of the current generation of astronauts, will be in getting to space - rocket launches can be very challenging, but the SpaceX Starship might be able to provide an experience that is more accommodating.A bigger problem for people with mobility issues (even if they can tolerate launch g-loads), is that safety requirements presumably mean a minimum ability to self-evacuate from the capsule/vehicle if it emergency lands/splashes-down. Especially splashdown. If you can't unfasten your seat harness and get through the side hatch and into a lifeboat within a reasonable amount of time, you won't be allowed to launch at all. I might be misremembering, but I think they even do helicopter water inversion escape training (presumably if the capsule rolls upside-down after splashdown.)Eventually, standards will reduce as vehicle safety increases (just as people with mobility issues are allowed to fly, even though they might not be able to self-evacuate in a crash landing). But for a long time, this will be an iron rule.
Currently the only disabled astronaut so far is John McFall,
Quote from: Lampyridae on 02/26/2024 10:29 amCurrently the only disabled astronaut so far is John McFall, Hayley Arceneaux is also an amputee. (AIUI, she flew with her prosthetic.) (Also, pedantically, McFall is an astronaut-candidate, he hadn't flown.)But this is what I meant, both she and McFall are fully mobile and able to self-evacuate. I suspect that will be a hard-limit on people with disabilities travelling in space. People with mobility issues will not be allowed to launch for a long time. Hopefully things improve more rapidly in the next 50 years than they have in the last 50 years, and we'll see a more airliner-like development, but for now... no.