Voyage to the Planets and Beyond

[holmec]

Did anyone else seen Voyage to the Planets and Beyond program on Discovery channel? What did you think? <br /><br />If you didn't see it, it was a fictional voyage to the solar system planets based on science of NASA. They visited Venus, Mars, Jupiter moons, Saturn moon, and a comet. It took about 2 years trip. It featured a sling shot around the sun to get to jupiter from venus, a failed landing mission, death by radiation, a comet becoming "live", an injured space craft and repairs, Surgery, landers, etc. Pretty fun to watch. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#0000ff"><em>"SCE to AUX" - John Aaron, curiosity pays off</em></font></p> </div>

 

[holmec]

Stuff I noticed:<br /><br />nuclear propulsion with one huge container for the propellant for years. It also dubbed as a shield.<br /><br />Acctually the way they used the shield was nice, just rotating the ship in the right direction. It would probably work<br /><br />Magnetic field shield. Protecting them from the Sun's radiation. nice.<br /><br />Several landers. One lander per landing. Nice concept. You probably need a different design per planet, for the most part. Also the bay where the landers were reflected the Shuttle's bay.<br /><br />Death in space - a real tradegy waiting to happen - one day it will.<br /><br />sleeping quarters with artificial gravity - nice, I hopes it works.<br /><br />critisisms<br />Why not use a solar sail to propell the ship to Jupiter?<br /><br />Why a manned mission to Venus? Wouldn't it be too dangerous??<br /><br />Comet lander. why use an enclosed lander? why not just an eva with a boosted jetpac? <br /><br />No Arm for the ship?<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#0000ff"><em>"SCE to AUX" - John Aaron, curiosity pays off</em></font></p> </div>

 

[thalion]

We have a thread going on about this in the Science Fiction forum...