Re:Crowdfund a mission to put a monolith on the moon
by mdolon on Monday January 03, 2011 @08:07PM
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I'd guess that the cost is not just in the rocket itself, but rather the team, research, tests/trials, fuel and logistics of the entire operation. Getting to space is one thing, getting to the moon is an entirely different ball game.
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Re:Crowdfund a mission to put a monolith on the moon
by presidentender on Tuesday January 04, 2011 @10:42AM
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My thought is that we can piggyback on Nasa's earlier work on fuels, and since our goal is just to hit a big gravity well (not at a specific point) our mathematical model for trajectory just has to include the earth and the moon.