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human being, a leader who dealt with the laws of nature directly, instead of through intermediaries.
Everyone s mission plans went to parking orbit everyone s except Halvorsen s.
History assaulted my mind when I saw his craggy, ancient face. Some recent Halvorsen s own
incredible Lunar South Pole mission twenty years ago. But in the mists there were Amundsen, Nansen,
and, of course, Lief Erikkson. As to why Dr. Worthing had not told us? He presumably feared what I
might do to make up the time. He feared right.
Did you receive? Halvorsen asked. You are silent too long.
I had forgotten to say over and wasted six minutes. I shrugged my shoulders, and struggled for internal
peace. I was not an inexperienced astronaut; I led explorations of several major lunar features and was
second in command on the mission to the asteroid Eros, the trial for this mission. I d had all the resources
of the United Nations behind me. There was no reason for me to be flustered. But I sat there in front of
the screen pickup openmouthed.
Well, he continued, The whole thing I will run through while you figure out what you say.Ja , ten years
ago I left the ISA Mars conference. We have already discussed why. Then I talked to our prime minister
who nodded his head to some things and shook it to others. Our space program is a matter of national
pride,ja , but it has to be a not-so-expensive program.
So, officially, I had the go ahead to do a small moon base. The Italians have one, the Tysker, the
Nederlanders, even the Svensker! Halvorsen scowled at this, and it was my turn to smile. If you look at
the Scandinavian peninsula, you see not golden fields of Nordic brotherhood, but a line of tall mountains
down its middle.
So our little single-stage-to-orbitNorgedraken flew ten missions and twice docked four payloads to big
composite disks. Then we sent them both toward the moon. You remember?
Very well, I remembered. It had been a fiasco.Both their seven-million-kroner base modules failed to
make nominal Lunar Orbit Insertion burns and had whipped by the moon out into interplanetary space. It
had been such a loss to the minuscule Norwegian space program that observers thought that it would
pretty much end the thing. But their parliamentary committee had met in closed session and voted more
of their oil money for a second attempt.
The old man s face broke into the grin I would expect to see on the face of Satan himself when he
acquires Halvorsen s soul. Well, our real plan that was not.nei , nor did anyone notice where the
so-called moon base modules went after they picked up a couple of kilometers per second rounding the
moon. Halvorsen raised his eyebrows and I got a sinking feeling as I remembered that the date of the
Norwegian Moon base failure was within a month of our own Mars supply staging mission.
Halvorsen continued. Everyone said Halvorsen screwed up.Ikke sandt ? Not so? Well, we let them
think that. Now I will put on the animation of our mission. Halvorsen s face was replaced by a cartoon
of the moon mission as he narrated. The big disk was not just a docking structure, it was an
aerobraking heat shield, which is how one should go to Mars. I say this to you ten years ago, but all your
big rocket companies and everyone who wants to work for one someday say, no, no, too risky. So
you then buy lots of big rockets,Ja ? Well,
As the trajectory lines on the animation bent past Luna toward Mars, I forgot myself. I yelled at him
despite the fact he hadn t finished talking. Halvorsen, damn you, we only boughtfive ARIES heavy-lift
launch vehicles! He wouldn t hear that until I was well into regretting I said it, of course.
& our ships have a mass ratio of seven and an exhaust velocity of three kilometers per second. That gets
us to Mars fast, easy. We do some phasing pair burns to make sure we hit things right. Then we go right
into the Martian atmosphere like the American Apollo returned to Earth, except we use negative lift to
hold us down if there is not so much atmosphere where we come by. So, if air is thin, we skim the
mountain tops and get at least capture, then hit our target on second pass, but if average, or more dense,
we can land first pass. No matter. After we reach terminal velocity, we use rockets for the last half [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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human being, a leader who dealt with the laws of nature directly, instead of through intermediaries.
Everyone s mission plans went to parking orbit everyone s except Halvorsen s.
History assaulted my mind when I saw his craggy, ancient face. Some recent Halvorsen s own
incredible Lunar South Pole mission twenty years ago. But in the mists there were Amundsen, Nansen,
and, of course, Lief Erikkson. As to why Dr. Worthing had not told us? He presumably feared what I
might do to make up the time. He feared right.
Did you receive? Halvorsen asked. You are silent too long.
I had forgotten to say over and wasted six minutes. I shrugged my shoulders, and struggled for internal
peace. I was not an inexperienced astronaut; I led explorations of several major lunar features and was
second in command on the mission to the asteroid Eros, the trial for this mission. I d had all the resources
of the United Nations behind me. There was no reason for me to be flustered. But I sat there in front of
the screen pickup openmouthed.
Well, he continued, The whole thing I will run through while you figure out what you say.Ja , ten years
ago I left the ISA Mars conference. We have already discussed why. Then I talked to our prime minister
who nodded his head to some things and shook it to others. Our space program is a matter of national
pride,ja , but it has to be a not-so-expensive program.
So, officially, I had the go ahead to do a small moon base. The Italians have one, the Tysker, the
Nederlanders, even the Svensker! Halvorsen scowled at this, and it was my turn to smile. If you look at
the Scandinavian peninsula, you see not golden fields of Nordic brotherhood, but a line of tall mountains
down its middle.
So our little single-stage-to-orbitNorgedraken flew ten missions and twice docked four payloads to big
composite disks. Then we sent them both toward the moon. You remember?
Very well, I remembered. It had been a fiasco.Both their seven-million-kroner base modules failed to
make nominal Lunar Orbit Insertion burns and had whipped by the moon out into interplanetary space. It
had been such a loss to the minuscule Norwegian space program that observers thought that it would
pretty much end the thing. But their parliamentary committee had met in closed session and voted more
of their oil money for a second attempt.
The old man s face broke into the grin I would expect to see on the face of Satan himself when he
acquires Halvorsen s soul. Well, our real plan that was not.nei , nor did anyone notice where the
so-called moon base modules went after they picked up a couple of kilometers per second rounding the
moon. Halvorsen raised his eyebrows and I got a sinking feeling as I remembered that the date of the
Norwegian Moon base failure was within a month of our own Mars supply staging mission.
Halvorsen continued. Everyone said Halvorsen screwed up.Ikke sandt ? Not so? Well, we let them
think that. Now I will put on the animation of our mission. Halvorsen s face was replaced by a cartoon
of the moon mission as he narrated. The big disk was not just a docking structure, it was an
aerobraking heat shield, which is how one should go to Mars. I say this to you ten years ago, but all your
big rocket companies and everyone who wants to work for one someday say, no, no, too risky. So
you then buy lots of big rockets,Ja ? Well,
As the trajectory lines on the animation bent past Luna toward Mars, I forgot myself. I yelled at him
despite the fact he hadn t finished talking. Halvorsen, damn you, we only boughtfive ARIES heavy-lift
launch vehicles! He wouldn t hear that until I was well into regretting I said it, of course.
& our ships have a mass ratio of seven and an exhaust velocity of three kilometers per second. That gets
us to Mars fast, easy. We do some phasing pair burns to make sure we hit things right. Then we go right
into the Martian atmosphere like the American Apollo returned to Earth, except we use negative lift to
hold us down if there is not so much atmosphere where we come by. So, if air is thin, we skim the
mountain tops and get at least capture, then hit our target on second pass, but if average, or more dense,
we can land first pass. No matter. After we reach terminal velocity, we use rockets for the last half [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]