On Jul 10, 4:16*am, Pat Flannery wrote:
Dr.Colon Oscopy wrote:
Quite a complicated series of chute deployements (wonder if they are
all intended for actual operation or some are for test recovery).
Hope its all gonna' work. *I was surprised at how enshrouded the crew
vehicle seems to be. *It would be nice to see it all work. *Launch
pics looked like a 50's sci-fi............Doc

To me it looks like Verne's Moon shell with fins added.
They sure want to make sure they know what number each fin is, don't they?

Pat

If their primary solid rocket below their butt explodes, they'd better
have 20 spare gees worth of MLAS acceleration at their disposal.
However, their MLAS at 20,411 kg (nearly 20.5 tonnes) plus the added
mass of having to propel their hefty crew module, it's unlikely
they'll get a fully loaded 5 gees worth (about a fourth of what
they'll need if their fly-by-rocket happens to explode behind their
backs).

However, if the initial launch goes well, and by using this MLAS as
their top/final trans-lunar boost stage, should help get that ever
increasing tonnage of payload to the moon in a whole lot better time.
Of course they’d also need to pack along extra fuel for slowing down.

Too bad that ghostNASA didn't think of this first. Oops! he kind of
did.
~ BG