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Reminder of something I saw months ago Nautilus-X, and it will test the first (long-term) artificial G generation centrifuge on ISS. Although a very small centrifuge no more than 40 feet, but it's the first baby step. Give you what spaceship may really look like in our time. And it's quite cheap actually in space vehicle term (3.7 billions, compare to NASA annul funds of about 20 billions), space colonization may not be that expensive as you think. (Build the transport ship first.)

you can find the official powerpoint about it on
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=36068

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

Reminder of something I saw months ago Nautilus-X, and it will test the first (long-term) artificial G generation centrifuge on ISS. Although a very small centrifuge no more than 40 feet, but it's the first baby step. Give you what spaceship may really look like in our time. And it's quite cheap actually in space vehicle term (3.7 billions, compare to NASA annul funds of about 20 billions), space colonization may not be that expensive as you think. (Build the transport ship first.)

you can find the official powerpoint about it on
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=36068

Yesssssss. Even looks a bit like a proper space-ship.

[Heron TSG]

That's actually not half bad for something that can sustain six people for two years.

[DJ]

Why only a decent vehicle hangar? I'd want all the stuff used for space exploration to be top quality.

[Heron TSG]

Maybe they misspelled 'descent', but that doesn't make a whole lot of sense either.

[Nikov]

We can go to Mars in five weeks with nuclear rocketry.

Just saying.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Maybe they misspelled 'descent', but that doesn't make a whole lot of sense either.

It's almost certainly not that. Descent requires there to be Down, which there is not in Zero-G, unless the centrifuge is powerful enough to make there be Down.

We can go to Mars in five weeks with nuclear rocketry.

Just saying.

Not entirely, Mars has to be in synch with Earth when said explorers arrive for an ETA that is at all reasonable.

[Heron TSG]

It could mean descent onto another celestial body. Perhaps reentry to Earth or possibly Mars or the Moon.

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

ITT: Space is the place

[counting]

"descent vehicle" means landing vehicle, or landing pod. ""descent vehicle hangar" - A docking airlock plus hangar to park the "descent vehicle". The entire thing is designed to be a mediate transportation between moon and earth, and you don't "land" the entire ship, you just drop a pod, and it needs a place to dock.

[counting]

Although I made post about population problems on Earth, I think my rely there is related to space colonization as well

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=90130.msg2500216#msg2500216

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

Although I made post about population problems on Earth, I think my rely there is related to space colonization as well

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=90130.msg2500216#msg2500216

I like that post.

[mainiac]

...the problem of getting into space becomes significantly less hard.

It also becomes significantly less lucrative.  It replaces the potential rush to space with a slow trickle.  It doesn't offer a solution to scarcity, overcrowding and wars if it remains too niche for mass exodus.  It just becomes another way for the rich to extract rents from the economy.