To The Moon in 2012

[eveningsky339]

You don't take this serious do you?

You seem insecure about this whole mess.

 

[SpaceCowboy]

Why do you call it a mess?

 

[pete.dakota]

Mars by 2020? "We'll see how the Moon landing goes!", right?

 

[Bj]

are you going to hitch a ride on this?

Even if you do make it to the moon, I wonder who will be laughing longer...

 

[SpaceCowboy]

Actually yeah, that would be a follow up goal.

 

[SiberianTiger]

I believe you aren't mentioning that your proposal is one of the two possibilities: either showing a man into on of the lunar rovers planned for 2012, or just shooting there a capsule with one's ashes (post-mortem, of course). No matter what's it, this is a one way ticket.

 

[SpaceCowboy]

Nope. Complete round trip flight with more flights to follow afterward.

 

[pete.dakota]

Where will you be launching from?

 

[SpaceCowboy]

Can't say with certainty, but most likely Wallop's Island. An acquaintance at the FAA suggested it to me.

 

[Bj]

So what association are you from?

 

[blane]

Where will you be launching from?

 

[pete.dakota]

And the guys at WFF won't mind you setting up camp next to them? Or is your out-of-home endeavour in accordance with NASA?

 

[to be]

The cost of fuel alone would be in the millions. Even for SpaceX, the most advanced commercial space company I am aware of, (assuming that the Falcon 9 works) it would still cost 120 million just to slam a big hunk of metal in to the moon. On top of that you need a lander, life support systems, a long duration capsule, a return vehicle, a heat shield.... And that big hunk of metal could only be about a third the mass of the apollo command/service module.

 

[SpaceCowboy]

None yet. The company has not been officially formed.

Funny funny snwcrsh

Wallops is available for commercial use.

 

[to be]

http://orbiter-forum.com/member.php?u=1635 Wallops is available for commercial use.

It is also quite a bit out of plane with the moon.

 

[Bj]

None yet. The company has not been officially formed.

Funny funny snwcrsh

Not officially formed?????

I think snwcrsh isn't far off....

 

[pete.dakota]

From founding, to it's first successful, un-manned flight, it took SpaceX 6 years. Six years and $120 million put a dead-weight, mock satellite into LEO.

And you plan to put humans on the Moon within four?

 

[Deke]

Here everyone, I talked to him in PM.

First off, he's 16 years old...

Here's his plan to get money... solicite ad space to companies to put on the rockets.
He also wants to put one of the Apollo astronauts on the first mission for publicity.

These are his plans to raise money.

Secondly, he wants to design a 7x7x7 spacecraft with a second module for living, etc.

Long story short, he's another kid thinking he can make it big like this.

He thinks in four years he could hire people, design spacecrafts, build them, finance them, get federal clearence, test flights and launch by 2012.

 

[SpaceCowboy]

At least, that's what I told Deke.

 

[blane]

You nasty man, you betrayed him and DID post his masterplan. Now someone here on the forum will steal his idea and launch even earlier :/