SUMMARY
We found the number of rocket launches from Mahia Peninsula needed to establish a lunar colony to be 28. This is after considering the success rate of our chosen rocket model with the amount of rockets needed to bring all the people and equipment to establish a lunar colony.
INTRODUCTION
How many rocket launches from Mahia Peninsula would it take to establish a lunar colony?
Astronomy, from Greek for the ‘law of the stars’ is arguably the first human science. Since the dawn of time, man has looked up to the sky in wonder of the beautiful celestial bodies upon them. With human sciences and technology developing at an exponential rate, it is inevitable that our dream of one day living on one of these alluring celestial bodies would come to fruition. The Earth’s moon(Luna) has always been an ideal candidate for colonization, its proximity key for a first base for experimenting with for future space colonization. To fully establish a colony on Luna is an enormous assignment, so for the purposes of this report, we will emit the financial requirements of such a mission.
We interpreted the question of establishing a lunar colony as establishing a permanent, sustainable settlement on the moon. Our solution also assumes the survival rate of …show more content…
This leaves us with the Saturn V, but it is no longer produced and the newer model, the Falcon 9 Heavy. The Falcon 9 Heavy was designed to one day perform crewed mission to Mars. Unlike the Saturn V, the Falcon 9 Heavy does not support as great of a payload but the cost of producing it rivals the Saturn V and it is the most powerful rocket to date in production. Assuming that the Falcon 9 Heavy was built to replace Saturn V but to be more cost efficient, the Falcon should be able to hold a crew of 3 people, whis corresponds to the crew amount of the Soyuz rocket
We found the number of rocket launches from Mahia Peninsula needed to establish a lunar colony to be 28. This is after considering the success rate of our chosen rocket model with the amount of rockets needed to bring all the people and equipment to establish a lunar colony.
INTRODUCTION
How many rocket launches from Mahia Peninsula would it take to establish a lunar colony?
Astronomy, from Greek for the ‘law of the stars’ is arguably the first human science. Since the dawn of time, man has looked up to the sky in wonder of the beautiful celestial bodies upon them. With human sciences and technology developing at an exponential rate, it is inevitable that our dream of one day living on one of these alluring celestial bodies would come to fruition. The Earth’s moon(Luna) has always been an ideal candidate for colonization, its proximity key for a first base for experimenting with for future space colonization. To fully establish a colony on Luna is an enormous assignment, so for the purposes of this report, we will emit the financial requirements of such a mission.
We interpreted the question of establishing a lunar colony as establishing a permanent, sustainable settlement on the moon. Our solution also assumes the survival rate of …show more content…
This leaves us with the Saturn V, but it is no longer produced and the newer model, the Falcon 9 Heavy. The Falcon 9 Heavy was designed to one day perform crewed mission to Mars. Unlike the Saturn V, the Falcon 9 Heavy does not support as great of a payload but the cost of producing it rivals the Saturn V and it is the most powerful rocket to date in production. Assuming that the Falcon 9 Heavy was built to replace Saturn V but to be more cost efficient, the Falcon should be able to hold a crew of 3 people, whis corresponds to the crew amount of the Soyuz rocket