Example
The students at The Learning Community Charter School (www.tlcnm.net) have designed
a mission to go one-way from a Bigelow space station in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to a Bigelow
Course Correction (MCC), and the Lunar Orbit Insertion (LOI) rocket
Moon and enter lunar orbit.
Budget = TLI + MCC + LOI = 3205 + 19 + 881 = 4,105 mps
Conclusion
capability of the spacecraft of 4,513 mps
lunar mission of 4,105 mps. We therefore
conclude that the mission can be
all the way to the Moon, and we
recommend that crew selection
begin immediately!
The Boeing Space Tug Study
spacecraft, had it been built,
would have been a most
formidable and versatile
ship, well ahead of its
time. They truly had an
astonishing space vehicle
on the drawing board
back in the day, no?
So why are we not
building
reusable
spaceships en masse
again?
Note: In the next issue of
RocketSTEM magazine, we
will continue the human
adventure
by
working
out the mathematics for a
landing on the Moon. Stay
tuned!
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