Comments on: February 6, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/february-6-2018-zimmerman-batchelor-podcast/ Thu, 08 Feb 2018 03:53:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Localfluff https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/february-6-2018-zimmerman-batchelor-podcast/#comment-1040598 Wed, 07 Feb 2018 21:10:58 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=50145#comment-1040598 Joe, the other guest, said in the middle of the show, that Falcon Heavy might become crewed. I just a few days ago read a statement from SpaceX saying that it will never become certified for crew. And there’s no reason to. Crews should be launched on F9, dock with the rest of the spacecraft (launched by FH’s) in safe LEO before they go anywhere outdoors.

Saturn V with crew couldn’t go to the Moon and back. It had to disassemble in Lunar orbit, and before that even in Lunar trajectory to reshuffle the Lunar Lander Module on the way. Saturn V was way too small to launch people to the Moon comfortable. Falcon Heavy is too, so there’s no difference there. If they had had time during the space race, they would’ve built the Lunar spacecraft in LEO with several separately launched modules. Like the ISS was built.

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