That means additional mass, which means build-up times are longer again, which means bored-to-death dead tourist s that never even get close to the Moon in sutiable times that they can endure. There are plenty of things worth seeing in our own galaxie that could be easily glimpsed while on the way.
Modern astronomy is incredible! By the time I was done looking at Earth, the next day would be spent looking at the moon and visa versa. We should be ashamed of that American trait!!!!! Fraser and Ian, thanks for this insightful article, but it would be nice if someone were to suggest a practical schedule for getting to the moon. Traveling at more than 1. Of course, the best and fastest way to get to the moon would be to simply build very powerful and long range transporter beams grin.
One G accleration to the midway point takes about 1. This assumes we could turn off the engine and rotate the ship quickly at the midway point, with the passengers being weightless then.
I think we need use use mini nuclear power or something new. This type of trip would be a dream and fantastic to anyone old enough to be a kid in the early 70s. I know that I have always wanted to go into space, orbiting the moon would be even that much better. One has to wonder how quickly the price for such travel could become realistic and of course once the excitement in lunar orbits wears off for the populace in general I am sure an actual lunar landing and bouncing around on the moon would be one of the greatest adventures anyone could dream to go on.
I have to agree with Gudenboink, there is no way that anyone could get bored on a trip like this, anyone that could get bored on this grand adventure would not be interested in going in the first place. People spend weeks at sea on these cruise ships with nothing but the big blue to see- but there are other sources of entertainment during their trip. Also, using a dedicated ship in space to travel to the moon seems to be the most practical. Once you return, you dock again with another ship bringing up passengers, and they take down those that are returning.
This mode seems the most cost effective, as you are not launching the mass of the lunar transport vehicle, just the payload. On boredom …etc. I was really talking in the context of using an Ion and Photonic driven spacecraft — it could take upto several weeks and months years???
The whole subject of tourist travel in space is moonshine until there is a space elevator to reduce the cost of moving mass to earth orbit by orders of magnitude. Bzzt wrong. The initial boost only lasted a few minutes. New horizons only accelerated once once it passed the moon and that was the Jupiter gravity assist.
Hehe, got me there. Thanks for the info, good to know. I personally think this is just a ploy to gain money and raise attention however my heart says I hope it is true. The sooner we start space touring and colonization the better. Humanity needs to span outwards to survive. I have to agree with Richard Branson. Why not build hotels in space? Once attached, the Apollo 11 spacecraft separated from the Saturn V for good and the Apollo 11 astronauts began their three-day journey across the ,mile expanse between the Earth and the moon.
This last move, known as lunar orbit insertion, went off without a hitch, swinging the astronauts around the moon at 62 miles above the lunar surface. The Apollo Lunar Module known as the Eagle descends onto the surface of the moon during the Apollo 11 mission, 20th July This is a composite image comprised of two separate shots.
Armstrong, a veteran test pilot, remained cool and collected even as warning alarms blared in the cramped cabin and Mission Control announced only 30 seconds of fuel left in the reserves. Standing side-by-side and peering out small triangular windows, Armstrong and Aldrin brought the LM to a gentle rest and cut the engines.
We're breathing again. Thanks a lot. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin raise the American flag on the moon. As commander, Armstrong had the privilege of being the first astronaut to set foot on the moon.
As he stepped off the ladder onto the lunar surface, Armstrong famously radioed back to Earth, "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. The two men spent the next two hours taking photographs, recording their impressions of the landscape, collecting piles of moon rocks and soil specimens, and deploying a package of scientific experiments, some which would stay on the moon after they left.
After a meal and a few hours of sleep, it was time for Armstrong and Aldrin to rejoin Collins and the CSM in lunar orbit. Neufeld says that this was another nail-biter moment for folks like him watching at home. Despite the setback, NASA and its thousands of employees forged ahead, and in October , Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission, orbited Earth and successfully tested many of the sophisticated systems needed to conduct a moon journey and landing.
In December of the same year, Apollo 8 took three astronauts to the far side of the moon and back, and in March Apollo 9 tested the lunar module for the first time while in Earth orbit. That May, the three astronauts of Apollo 10 took the first complete Apollo spacecraft around the moon in a dry run for the scheduled July landing mission. At a. Armstrong, a year-old civilian research pilot, was the commander of the mission.
After traveling , miles in 76 hours, Apollo 11 entered into a lunar orbit on July The next day, at p. Two hours later, the Eagle began its descent to the lunar surface, and at p. At p. As he made his way down the module's ladder, a television camera attached to the craft recorded his progress and beamed the signal back to Earth, where hundreds of millions watched in great anticipation.
Aldrin joined him on the moon's surface 19 minutes later, and together they took photographs of the terrain, planted a U. By a. The two men slept that night on the surface of the moon, and at p. Among the items left on the surface of the moon was a plaque that read: "Here men from the planet Earth first set foot on the moon—July A. There would be five more successful lunar landing missions, and one unplanned lunar swing-by. Apollo 13 had to abort its lunar landing due to technical difficulties.
The last men to walk on the moon, astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt of the Apollo 17 mission, left the lunar surface on December 14,
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