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    Discussion Mars Forever - P1: Mission Architecture

    With the 90 day report being a huge roundabout, inefficient way to reach Mars and the Mars Reference Design Mission, following the late-NASA tradition of "not the cheapest possible", SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wants to go to Mars, and build a permanent colony there. The ultimate objective: Make going...
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    News WSJ: Europe Ends Independent Pursuit of Manned Space Travel

    Over it's entire lifetime, by many different contributing nations. If you did this with, say, public healthcare, and the money spent into it were easily visible as a single structure, it would totally dwarf the ISS on a scale that's almost comedic. The ISS is nothing compared to other...
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    Request Shuttle Fleet Ultra

    This thread's made some... err... progress :blink: I have neither the knowledge or the time. This is work done by entire teams of people over months, maybe even years. I can't exactly cook that up myself, without even knowledge of C++. Btw, I've got a neat idea for SSME exhaust I'd actually...
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    News WSJ: Europe Ends Independent Pursuit of Manned Space Travel

    Odd. You're the one that said 5% would be reasonable earlier. Wait, are you saying there's no engineers or mission planners involved in LEO missions to the ISS? :blink: You said it has some value. Seeing as the ISS is currently going to be de-orbited 2020 by the Russians, who have the only...
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    News WSJ: Europe Ends Independent Pursuit of Manned Space Travel

    I'm not putting it above other more pressing needs. I suggested a budget of 5%. How the heck is that putting spaceflight above other needs? I think we're all saying that the current world is not spending enough in manned spaceflight. We're not saying it's the only thing that matters. We're...
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    News WSJ: Europe Ends Independent Pursuit of Manned Space Travel

    Then why are we debating at all if you agree? We're not demanding 20% spending in space! I'd be totally satisfied with 5%! That would be an increase by an entire order of magnitude! ---------- Post added at 02:51 AM ---------- Previous post was at 02:48 AM ---------- Okay, it's late and I've...
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    News WSJ: Europe Ends Independent Pursuit of Manned Space Travel

    But you missed something key I said twice. Now this is the third time. I'm saying we should be developing and working towards technologies that make it possible. You said There's never going to be an eventually if the technologies aren't there. But technological development kept on going...
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    News WSJ: Europe Ends Independent Pursuit of Manned Space Travel

    I really don't have the time for this... :shifty: True, but the infrastructure wasn't established, and it was an alien environment. What you're implying is that survival in the New World was as easy as survival in Europe. This simply isn't true, and could only come from a lack of understanding...
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    X-99 Dual Star

    I have bit of a problem right now. That's developing the ascent profile/pitch program for the vessel... This part will take a bit to figure out so sorry if the updates are slow in coming.
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    Request Shuttle Fleet Ultra

    That seems like a somewhat poor reason for either side to refuse cooperation. But I guess if the authors of Shuttle Fleet want to keep their developments to themselves, that's they're right. However annoying :dry:
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    News WSJ: Europe Ends Independent Pursuit of Manned Space Travel

    I'm sorry I really don't have the time to really keep up with the discussion here, and reply point-by-point, but I do have something else to add (However off-topic to the research returns from the ISS, which I'll agree with Orbinaut Pete on, well justified), but back to manned spaceflight /...
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    Request Shuttle Fleet Ultra

    I'm really surprised I haven't seen this yet... So Shuttle Fleet has a lot of very awesome features for the space shuttle, off the to of my head: 1. New, much more realistic SFX 2. Much better simulation of engine sounds 3. Abort and other calls to/from houston and the Shuttle. 4. GPC MFD -...
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    Search Space Shuttle Ultra

    This makes me wonder where I got 1.05 then... Well, sure it crashed sometimes, but this was a fatal flaw in the code where every time ITEM 22 is entered on the CRT it crashes the sim, because it's calling on an old function. Surely there's a newer version, that even if it's not stable, doesn't...
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    Search Space Shuttle Ultra

    Whenever I try to enter ITEM 22 to start the countdown timer for the CRT to fire the OMS, the sim crashes. Orbiter.log said that an old function had been called on that no longer existed. So really, where can I get an updated version of Space Shuttle Ultra? It seems like it shouldn't be that...
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    News WSJ: Europe Ends Independent Pursuit of Manned Space Travel

    "manned spaceflight is necessary to catalyse this need for R&D" actually sounds like a great argument for manned spaceflight. Not only would it catalyze technological development, but economic spending as well, specifically in highly technical fields, which would increase the job demands and...
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