And to think that I've heard the old "Fly me to the Moon" hundreds of times in Orbiter(its become like "Air on a G string" for me). I haven't seen the new Eva either.
Also, I forgot one very important type of docking...
MUSCLE DOCKING!
Geez, I almost had a heart attack before I realized it wasn't what I thought it was. Don't bring up any more weird docking stuff, could be our downfall.
1. Maybe she is constantly dieting like the Shuttle ET? Never mind that they don't actually ingest anything besides fuel...
A
official NASA history used the word diet in regards to Grumman's efforts to keep the weight down so why not?
PA time! I would like to say to enterprising new spacecraft personify-ers that I have mined the NASA history books(they are
online!) shamelessly for info and it could help you if you want to nab a NASA spacecraft before I start on it. The clock is ticking as I plow forward(Soviet Spacecraft, minus Soyuz, should be safe from my mania for now) and more craft fall to my personalization. Public Announcement over, returning to original schedule.
2. What do you mean, "Radar Thingy"?
Radar emitter/receivers can look like all sorts of things and not the dish-shaped stuff we usually think of. Make it look like Metal Gear Rex's Radome if you want.
"Metal Gear!?! Moon landing?!?"
Maybe not.
3. Maybe something like LEM-shaped Powerizer springs?
There would have to be
four of those things. Remember, she has to leave that junk on the Moon, so maybe the lander legs are attached to the descent stage and not directly to her. It could work.
Darn you, space station Fred!
This seems like a running gag could be made about NASA being inconsistent in long range planing. First NASA has Mercury(first Americans in Space), then they are told to get to the Moon before 1970. So they ditch Mercury to build Apollo. Only they need to work on something while Apollo is developed, so they take Mercury and turn her into Gemini. Gemini does awesome stuff(EVAs, long duration space flight, rendezvous, the list goes on), and then gets canned so NASA can focus on Apollo. Apollo does awesome stuff too(Moon landings, America's First Space Station), but is canned so NASA can build a big reusable space plane. The Shuttle too does awesome things(ISS for one). And now the Shuttles are going though their un-retirement while NASA cooks up it's next big thing. The spacecraft-tans should harbor some ill-will towards NASA for his crap in abandoning them to do something completely different. It's not really his fault, but more of a political tug-of-war he is stuck in; maybe we shouldn't be too hard on him.
What am I saying? HE LET SKYLAB BURN! :chainsaw:*
What's L-3? Google has some wide ranging results and I never heard of it before.
Seriously though, maybe they should dock together like space-acrobats? That certainly lends itself to the comparison of Blue Danube. Or, otherwise, like space-skydiving, or, even better:
Space acrobats? Making it almost like ballet would be an idea mostly like that, only ballet is much more restricted by gravity. I remember somebody describing docking as being like ballet. What is the even better part though? If it is a picture it doesn't show up.
I'm not going to quote myself, but I said before that Apollo's swimsuit should be white. I was mistaken; it should be silver. Hope I didn't throw anyone off with that.
*We really shouldn't be too hard on him. He's a hostage of the US political system.
Hardly anyone wants to visit the inner planets, which is a shame.
