Hercules Exploration system

[mrmorris]

<font color="yellow">"... beer, (won't THAT have an impact on a closed-loop life support system!) ..."</font><br /><br />Well I was going to ask if there had been any testing of beer behavior in low or zero-gravity situations. Then I Googled. <br /><br /><br />-- What did people do before there was Google? <br />** They stayed ignorant a lot...

 

[yree]

Hercules Exploration System<br />Part Two of a three part series on CEV design & launch concepts<br /><br />Kevin Waldroup expands on the ideas for Shuttle-C and discusses the possibilites of variants and space station applications using the external tank and other components of the existing shuttle infrastructure.<br /><br />+ Read Article<br />http://www.projectconstellation.us/articles/hercules.html<br />http://www.projectconstellation.us/news/<br />"There could also be a Super Hercules...instead of having the cargo on the side of the external tank it is placed on top of it. Then connect 4 little Hercules to the external tank, and a payload beyond 200,000lbs. into low Earth orbit is possible. "