Space flight should be done the way Tsiolkovsky, von Braun and Oberth intended, in a big craft rotating to simulate gravity. No space sickness, and no intolerable microgravity toilets.
Big crews to avoid cabin fever, big habitats.
Being trapped inside a tin can for two …it does not matter how well they go along with each other at the beginning, they will be ready for murder about halfway. Or catatonic. High-energy cosmic rays will slowly kill the brain cells. Lovely.
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johnbrown
February 28, 2013 at 10:20 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Too bad that I am old and overweight, I would love to fly that mission!
birgerjohansson
March 4, 2013 at 6:46 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Space flight should be done the way Tsiolkovsky, von Braun and Oberth intended, in a big craft rotating to simulate gravity. No space sickness, and no intolerable microgravity toilets.
Big crews to avoid cabin fever, big habitats.
Being trapped inside a tin can for two …it does not matter how well they go along with each other at the beginning, they will be ready for murder about halfway. Or catatonic. High-energy cosmic rays will slowly kill the brain cells. Lovely.