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Falcon 9 to the moon
Just for fun, consider the possibility of using variants on the Falcon
9 to go to the moon. How would you do it? Obviously multiple launches, one for the lunar lander and one for the crew who would rendevous with the lander. I am not sure the Falcon 9 heavy could put a LM into lunar trajectory considering the weight of the original LM so it might take a third launch of something. Are any of the vehicles being developed by Armadillo or similar close enough to being ready for such a thing or would we use old LM technology or even old Soviet tech? What would it take to soft land a Bigelow module on the moon? Any hand waving guesstimates on costs for various missions? |
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Falcon 9 to the moon
On Jul 1, 2:34*pm, Frogwatch wrote:
Just for fun, consider the possibility of using variants on the Falcon 9 to go to the moon. *How would you do it? *Obviously multiple launches, one for the lunar lander and one for the crew who would rendevous with the lander. I am not sure the Falcon 9 heavy could put a LM into lunar trajectory considering the weight of the original LM so it might take a third launch of something. Are any of the vehicles being developed by Armadillo or similar close enough to being ready for such a thing or would we use old LM technology or even old Soviet tech? What would it take to soft land a Bigelow module on the moon? Any hand waving guesstimates on costs for various missions? earth re entry would be a major issue. I do wonder how a transhab inflatable cntaing a capsule would be for ba hot re entry from moon |
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Falcon 9 to the moon
On Jul 1, 3:08*pm, " wrote:
On Jul 1, 2:34*pm, Frogwatch wrote: Just for fun, consider the possibility of using variants on the Falcon 9 to go to the moon. *How would you do it? *Obviously multiple launches, one for the lunar lander and one for the crew who would rendevous with the lander. I am not sure the Falcon 9 heavy could put a LM into lunar trajectory considering the weight of the original LM so it might take a third launch of something. Are any of the vehicles being developed by Armadillo or similar close enough to being ready for such a thing or would we use old LM technology or even old Soviet tech? What would it take to soft land a Bigelow module on the moon? Any hand waving guesstimates on costs for various missions? earth re entry would be a major issue. I do wonder how a transhab inflatable cntaing a capsule would be for ba hot re entry from moon You'd use Dragon. |
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On Jul 1, 3:08*pm, " wrote:
On Jul 1, 2:34*pm, Frogwatch wrote: Just for fun, consider the possibility of using variants on the Falcon 9 to go to the moon. *How would you do it? *Obviously multiple launches, one for the lunar lander and one for the crew who would rendevous with the lander. I am not sure the Falcon 9 heavy could put a LM into lunar trajectory considering the weight of the original LM so it might take a third launch of something. Are any of the vehicles being developed by Armadillo or similar close enough to being ready for such a thing or would we use old LM technology or even old Soviet tech? What would it take to soft land a Bigelow module on the moon? Any hand waving guesstimates on costs for various missions? earth re entry would be a major issue. I do wonder how a transhab inflatable cntaing a capsule would be for ba hot re entry from moon The Bigelow would stay on the moon. |
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