Space Adventures: round the Moon for 100 million USD

[keermalec]

link...<br /><blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p>The Space Adventures team has designed a circumlunar mission using a unique combination of existing and flight tested Russian technology. This mission builds on space technology originally developed for manned lunar missions, and has been flown over decades as part of the world’s most successful human spaceflight program. <br /><br /><br />This $200m effort, which sells at $100m per seat, marks an unprecedented reduction in cost, with increased safety, of any previous manned lunar effort.<p><hr /></p></p></blockquote> <br />Rendez-vous in LEO with a booster stage, 10 day trip to and back from the Moon, atmpspheric re-entry at over 10 km/s... Anyone up for this? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em>“An error does not become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.” John F. Kennedy</em></p> </div>

 

[qso1]

If I had the cash I would...but I'll never have that kind of money so its a moot point. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><strong>My borrowed quote for the time being:</strong></p><p><em>There are three kinds of people in life. Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen...and those who do not know what happened.</em></p> </div>

 

[keermalec]

What about your upcoming novel? ;-) <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em>“An error does not become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.” John F. Kennedy</em></p> </div>

 

[qso1]

Not a chance...its about human spaceflight which is a niche market these days. If I'd written aliens, exploding star ships etc...another words, If I'd written Star Wars, Trek, B-5 etc...maybe. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><strong>My borrowed quote for the time being:</strong></p><p><em>There are three kinds of people in life. Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen...and those who do not know what happened.</em></p> </div>

 

[thereiwas]

Better keep buying those Lotto tickets then. <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" />

 

[js117]

The Russian's have never put a human in a space<br />craft and sent it to the moon or in orbit around it.<br />There hardware is not proven for this.<br />Only the U.S.A. Apollo program has done this.

 

[PistolPete]

The Soviet Zond spaceflights on Astronautix.com and Wikipedia <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><em>So, again we are defeated. This victory belongs to the farmers, not us.</em></p><p><strong>-Kambei Shimada from the movie Seven Samurai</strong></p> </div>

 

[keermalec]

The hardware actually did prove to be reliable, finally, but too late to beat the Americans to the Moon.<br /><br />From Astronautix.com:<br /><blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p>1970 October 20 - Zond 8 - Program: Lunar L1. Launch Site: Baikonur. Launch Vehicle: Proton 8K82K / 11S824. Mass: 5,390 kg (11,880 lb). Perigee: 200 km (120 mi). Apogee: 400,000 km (240,000 mi). Inclination: 51.60 deg. Period: 15,562.22 min. Duration: 5.17 days. <br />Final circumlunar flight; successfully recovered October 26, 1970. The announced objectives were investigations of the moon and circumlunar space and testing of onboard systems. The spacecraft obtained photographs of the earth on October 21 from a distance of 64,480 km. The spacecraft transmitted flight images of the earth for three days. Zond 8 flew past the moon on October 24, 1970, at a distance of 1,110.4 km and obtained both black and white and colour photographs of the lunar surface. Scientific measurements were also obtained during the flight. The spacecraft used a new variant of the double-dip re-entry, coming in over the north pole, bouncing off the atmosphere, being tracked by Soviet radar stations as it soared south over the Soviet Union, then making a final precision re-entry followed by splashdown at the recovery point in the Indian Ocean.<br /><br /><p><hr /></p></p></blockquote> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em>“An error does not become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.” John F. Kennedy</em></p> </div>