(Of course the launch vehicle would probably have to be as big or bigger than the super-Saturn-V "Nova" rocket designs.) It wouldn't take too much to redesign this to be your steampunk moon-boat. The conceptual design that resulted came to be known as the BIS Lunar Spaceship, and for all its flaws and misconceptions it must be regarded as one of the classical pioneering studies in the history of astronautics. The object of the exercise was to demonstrate that, within the capabilities of propellants that could be specified (at least theoretically) at the time, such a mission was not merely possible but would be economically viable in so far as the vehicle lift-off mass from the Earth would be no more than one thousand tonnes. In 1938, the BIS Technical Committee decided to go the full distance and produce a conceptual design of a vessel that would carry a crew of three safely to the Moon, permit them to land for a stay of fourteen days, and provide for a safe return to the Earth with a final payload of half a tonne. Lots of spheres and structural beams, usually with circular holes in them to save mass. They tend to be surprisingly low-tech (when they're not using nuclear power plants.), and use things like mercury boilers instead of solar panels. There's some cool sections on the decks of a ship, how an astronavigator crewmember would do their job.Ī good source of inspiration are rockets and spaceships drawn up in the time period between 1910s and 1950. If you have anything you would like to bring up to change or add, please do mention it.įirst, for general info on rockets in sci-fi, read Atomic Rockets. So how do you get steampunk rockets that can loft things into the Earth Orbit and beyond? This post aims to describe some of the possibilities to make rocketry and space travel in your steampunk world. We here at the Kerbal Space Program forum certainly love our space travel and our hard science fiction. The latter is what we're going to talk about (or write about if you want to be technical.) It can be fantasy, a love story, or even hard science fiction. The Post-apocalyptic return-to-steam, the Victorian England or Aristocratic American story, even the Wild Western. Linus was dating some astronaut who went missing after some alien invasion. Wernher von Kerman is married to Maria von Kerman I'll let you figure out how that works.ĭerderrin Kerman was married to an astronaut, until she found out that he only went in a plane above 50 kilometers, which isn't space. Those women were each married to 5 men, and all of the men were married to each other. Carphe was later abducted by aliens and killed. Valentina had one children who died the same year she was born due to a time-travelling incident.Ĭarphe was briefly married to Bob for tax reasons, and briefly dated a KSC Intern. Valentina was married to Kirrim Kerman until he was dissolved in a vat of acid filled with specially bred acid resistant sharks for siding with the OSHA once. Jetspha Kerman is the head of VAB Operations.īill is agendered due to a time-travelling incident.īob was briefly married to fellow cowardly-astronaut Carphe Kerman, for tax reasons. Romantic Relationships in the United Kerbin Defence Force and the United Kerbin Space Probe Agency
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