I dunno. I kinda like the concept of "Othership"
Person A: "Well, we've got this ship, and that ship and an Othership."
Person B: "You mean Mother ship right?"
Person A: "Nah, look at the styling and engineering. It's something other than a normal vessel."
I can see it now. You fly up in a DGIV for an initial scouting mission. You dock. UMMU out and enter. Go down a very long dark spiraling staircase looking for a light switch or something. Then in the dark...... you get run over by a bot. Sigh. Restart scenario.
I remember as a kid cracking water using a transformer from a HO scale race car track. Just make sure you vent the Hydrogen. I don't know it that would be enough production or not.
Not quite. The planes back then were subsonic. Imagine what the shock wave from a mach plus XR2 could do to a squadron of craft as it simply flys through at mach 4, 5 or whatever? Wouldn't need a weapon, the plane would BE the weapon.
No second ship needed for it. You would use something like a lunar mounted mass driver to fire your pellets. Once you have a stream of them laid out you launch the ship, it uses a bussard ramscoop to not only scoop up fuel pellets but also gas as it travels along. Basicly an enriched Bussard...
I have some memories of being involved a number of years ago with a website called "The Lunar institute of technology" http://www.ibiblio.org/lunar/school/ the site went defunct a number of years ago and some pages are missing but one concept they were working on was a Enriched Bussard Ram...
Well, decided to play my own challenge. It took me two "flips" to get in the neighborhood of the moon and then a third to achieve orbit. I am a little proud of myself though, it took only one flip to get from the moon to a orbit around the earth. All in one shot.
In my case it was such a close call between Reflections and Apollo 11 remastered that it was hard to choose. I had to go with Reflections. Both have excellent Musical scores and visually very nice. The only reason that I would give Reflections the edge is that while listening I can sorta...
I'll need to pass on your challenge since I haven't figured out how to dock yet using the MFDs yet so yes I admit that it's automatically beyond my skill level.
Please remember this is just a very loose way that I do things. One thing I did in order to help me out was watch some video tutorials and I used the DGIV autopilot for ascent a few times. During the flight, I took notes as far as when it lowers the nose etc. Now I don't need the autopilot...
Inspired by a post I made in another thread I decide to make it official.
Here are my thoughts, the Orbitnaut uses a lot of MFDs in their typical flight. Let's go back in time (aka 1950's Robert Heinlein for example) and see if people can do without.
The conditions:
1) A DGIV parked on KSC...