Ouch. I guess that put me in my place, huh? Maybe I should have been more specific about what I thought believable, like shuttle mods and fusion from helium-3. But there is no need to slap these ideas down, too, since once was enough for me.
I just finished reading Homer H. Hickam's Back to the Moon. This book of fiction deals with the shuttle being modified to achieve escape velocity, taking a landing craft to the moon and retrieving 30 kilos of Schmitt's discovery, the helium-3 at the crater named Shorty. It was a fun read. Fusion reactors, bad top level politicians, duty bound astronauts, TEXAS!, sex, space shuttles, evil bad guys.
This is the same guy who wrote Rocket Boys: A Memoir, aka October Sky. He is a real life NASA engineer that has helped train shuttle crews, so his info is legit and his premise is supposedly possible.
Slashdot Mirror
Ouch. I guess that put me in my place, huh? Maybe I should have been more specific about what I thought believable, like shuttle mods and fusion from helium-3. But there is no need to slap these ideas down, too, since once was enough for me.
I just finished reading Homer H. Hickam's Back to the Moon. This book of fiction deals with the shuttle being modified to achieve escape velocity, taking a landing craft to the moon and retrieving 30 kilos of Schmitt's discovery, the helium-3 at the crater named Shorty. It was a fun read. Fusion reactors, bad top level politicians, duty bound astronauts, TEXAS!, sex, space shuttles, evil bad guys.
This is the same guy who wrote Rocket Boys: A Memoir, aka October Sky. He is a real life NASA engineer that has helped train shuttle crews, so his info is legit and his premise is supposedly possible.