Saturday, July 19, 2008





The Space Station as an Interplanetary Transport Vehicle?

I absolutely love this idea. Let's get crackin'!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Alrighty, then! Let's just strap about 37 JATO bottles to the rig, point it towards Mars, and GO!

Uh, 'course, don't try atmospheric breaking or orbital gravity slingshot swings around planets--might cause some internal discombobulation, like a PikUp Stix bundle being tossed against a wall, thus flying apart in a most undecorous manner...

Anonymous said...

The ISS is not sheilded enough protect it from interplanetary solar radiation and cosmic rays for such a long journey to Mars and back. The author seems to forget that the ISS orbits earth well within the protection of the earths magnetic field

Mac said...

Man, you guys are total fun-killers! ;-)