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This may sound crazy but it has been my hope that Elon Musk would buy it and send it to Mars to orbit the red planet. Just attach a couple of booster rockets to
by hourislate 10y ago
This may sound crazy but it has been my hope that Elon Musk would buy it and send it to Mars to orbit the red planet. Just attach a couple of booster rockets to many of the docking ports to slowly send there. Even if it took 5 years it would provide a habitat in Orbit for emergencies, etc.
If that is not feasible I believe that at the end of it's life we should try to place it on the moons surface as intact as possible. It's parts could be salvaged to build a base, etc. It makes sense to take anything that is end of life in orbit around the earth and send it to the moons surface. Sort of like a wrecking yard that future generations might use for parts if there is ever a moon settlement.
- krallja 10y agoSee https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12323365 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12323365 for calculation of the incredible amount of energy that would require. Remember that it took an entire Saturn V rocket to launch 3 people and a pair of tiny spacecraft to the Moon, which is relatively close. The ISS weighs 420Mg; the Apollo LM+CSM pair weighed about a tenth of that. Landing it on the Moon would also not be possible, because that would require an engine capable of accelerating the ISS at approximately 1/6g.
- drjesusphd 10y agoThat's an interesting idea,but not as easy as it sounds. You would need to get a significant amount of fuel (about an ISS mass' woth? I havent done the calculation) to the ISS to pull this off.