How To Send A Space Shuttle To The Moon
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Published 2020-08-08
• For All Mankind — Season 2 Official T...
So, let's do the math and figure out what it would take to send a Space Shuttle to the moon, and why it's a really bad idea.
The Space Shuttle orbiter model is part of the ReDirect mod for Kerbal Space program.
All Comments (21)
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The most unrealistic thing about this video is a working space shuttle in Kerbal Space Program.
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Now remember.. the more fuel you need.. the more fuel you'll need
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In 1983, a classmate kept asking me: "Why don't they use the space shuttle to go to the moon?" 37 years later, the definitive answer is here.
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The armed Astronauts have a red and gold stripes embroidered on their spacesuits. They're likely US Marines since that's their branch's colors. Technically, Space Marines.
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Maybe this shuttle just looks exactly the same like our shuttle, but it's scaled up 200% by all proportions.
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My entire criticism with this show can be boiled down to one sentence: "You have Sea Dragon, yet you choose to develop Shuttle?"
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In season 2 they did mention refueling in orbit, and they had sea dragon for payloads. So the shuttle was just used for crew exchanges. It wouldn’t need to use the external tank
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I just want to note that I appreciate how, after calling out the front of the wings being entirely wrong for the Columbia, your simulator version of the shuttle has Columbia labels on the back and Discovery on the front.
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6:58 “There’s a better solution.” I was expecting him to say “more boosters.”
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Engineers: We may not have enough fuel to get to the Moon. Scott: Just load extra propellant and DEAL WITH IT
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Spot on Scott! Confirmed in episode 9 that they refuel in LEO before TLI
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As an American who watched Apollo 11 live, the first minutes of For All Mankind were unexpectedly among the most intense minutes of TV fiction I've ever watched. The idea of losing the space race is unthinkable.
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Somewhere in alternate reality (where STS-135 wasn't the Last One): Aug 8, 2020: STS-162 Launch cancelled, investigation pending. Aug 9, 2020: Mott Stanley - "How To Not Send A Space Shuttle To The Moon"
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Introducing Scott Manley, newest technical advisor to the producers of "For All Mankind."
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They probably wouldn't develop the space shuttle in this timeline, since in the show they're more interested in the moon than LEO. And the space shuttle was designed for LEO.
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That was a very threatening "Fly Safe" at the end of this one, Mr. Manley. :)
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Scott: how to fly a space shuttle to the moon... "You don't"
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Jeez... "For All Mankind," should have hired Scott as a consultant. :/
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Just showed my 9yr old daugther a landing space shuttle, her reaction; "Hey thats handy they can just land like a normal plane!" tja..
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Scott, didn’t you forget the Shuttle went to moon for that gravity assist to stop that one asteroid
