NationStates Jolt Archive

Today (Monday February 9, 2004) at 2:30:00 am GMT, Credonia launched an international crew of astronauts into space. Their destination, the Moon. They will will be placed into a free-return trajectory allowing them to make one burn to utilize the moons gravitational field to slingshot them around and bring them safely back to earth. They were launched atop a might Satrun V rocket which has a TOTAL thrust of 7 million pounds in the first stage alone.

(Since this is a realistic and REALTIME type mission, pictures will be taken and posted here when they come available. Information and data displayed on here will also be realistic as will be confirmed by some of the screenshots i take of the instruments and data readouts)

If any members of the press have questions about any data presented, please feel free to ask on this thread.

Mission Crew
Mission Commander- James Madison (Credonia)
Command Module Pilot- Yitzhak Meir (United Elias)
Lunar Module Pilot- Ernest Johnson (Tasty Foods)

Mission Duration: 8 Days (REALTIME)

Launch Information
Liftoff- 2:30:00 am GMT
Relative Inclination To The Moon- 1.53 Degrees
Moons Orbit Inclination- 5.01 Degrees
Launch Azimuth- 90 degrees
Roll Program Began- 2:31:13 am GMT
First Staging (Stage one shut down-jettison-stage two ignition)- 2:32:36 am GMT
Second Staging (Stage two shut down-jettison- stage three ignition)- 2:38:50 am GMT
MECO (Main Engine Cut-off/Orbital Insertion)- 2:42:06 am GMT

Orbit Information
Orbital Insertion Altitude- 223.4
Apoapsis- 236.60 km
Periapsis- 221.04 km
Orbit Inclination- 26.7770 degrees
Semi-major Axis Altitude- 228.28 km
Longitude of Ascending Node- 5.3037 degrees

Today's Pictures
http://www.vussp.com/nationstates/apollo1.jpg

http://www.vussp.com/nationstates/apollo2.jpg

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A Message from the People's of Zingowango
We congratulate you on your launch to space. We hope to one day follow in your footsteps and plant the Zingowango flag on the moon next to yours.
Muffins are on their way to the President!

OOC: If my guy is the command module pilot, surely that means he doesnt get to moon walk?

Kind of pointless that he is a geological specialist then...

A Message from the People's of Zingowango
We congratulate you on your launch to space. We hope to one day follow in your footsteps and plant the Zingowango flag on the moon next to yours.
Muffins are on their way to the President!

Thank you for your kind words. The message will be relayed to the astronauts.

OOC: If my guy is the command module pilot, surely that means he doesnt get to moon walk?

Kind of pointless that he is a geological specialist then...

OOC: not necessarily. Apollo 15 had a crew highly trained in geology. The CMP made some VERY nice observations.

but this mission isnt landing on the moon. I have to fix my moon textures, they got messed up somehow so the landing spot i was gonna land at (Fra Mauro) doesnt look right so they will just swing around the moon. Dont worry, there will be more missions (the next one will be a lunar landing) provided i can get my moon textures fixed

The Crew were in good spirits following the Translunr Injection burn which occured at 3:53:00 am GMT yesterday and ended at 3:58:20 am GMT.

TLI Burn
TLE- 52 Degrees
Delta V Required For The Burn- 3,108 m/sec
TLI- 226.97 degrees
Rinc- 2.47 Degrees
DTi- 1.208M seconds (estimated time to lunar orbit insertion)
DTe- 874.5 k seconds (estimated time to arrival at the moon)
Fuel Before TLI Burn- 64.9%
Fuel After TLI Burn- 9.4% (indicating orbital insertion was right on the money)

http://www.vussp.com/nationstates/apollo3.jpg

http://www.vussp.com/nationstates/apollo4.jpg

http://www.vussp.com/nationstates/apollo5.jpg

The Imperial Navy will be glad to welcome you to the moon, and feel free to visit the Imperial Research station located in the northern hemisphere.

Good luck in your space ventures.

Frank Trent, Head of the Imperial Space Association. (ISA)

Thank you. We will most likely visit (actaully set foot on the moon) in no less than 3 RL weeks (a week after this mission ends)

A Message from the People's of Zingowango
We congratulate you on your launch to space. We hope to one day follow in your footsteps and plant the Zingowango flag on the moon next to yours.
Muffins are on their way to the President!

Thank you for your kind words. The message will be relayed to the astronauts.

OOC: If my guy is the command module pilot, surely that means he doesnt get to moon walk?

Kind of pointless that he is a geological specialist then...

OOC: not necessarily. Apollo 15 had a crew highly trained in geology. The CMP made some VERY nice observations.

but this mission isnt landing on the moon. I have to fix my moon textures, they got messed up somehow so the landing spot i was gonna land at (Fra Mauro) doesnt look right so they will just swing around the moon. Dont worry, there will be more missions (the next one will be a lunar landing) provided i can get my moon textures fixed

Ok cool, we're just swinging around, next time can my guy pilot the lunar module?

Congratuations on your voyage to the Moon.
God bless.

A Message from the People's of Zingowango
We congratulate you on your launch to space. We hope to one day follow in your footsteps and plant the Zingowango flag on the moon next to yours.
Muffins are on their way to the President!

Thank you for your kind words. The message will be relayed to the astronauts.

OOC: If my guy is the command module pilot, surely that means he doesnt get to moon walk?

Kind of pointless that he is a geological specialist then...

OOC: not necessarily. Apollo 15 had a crew highly trained in geology. The CMP made some VERY nice observations.

but this mission isnt landing on the moon. I have to fix my moon textures, they got messed up somehow so the landing spot i was gonna land at (Fra Mauro) doesnt look right so they will just swing around the moon. Dont worry, there will be more missions (the next one will be a lunar landing) provided i can get my moon textures fixed

Ok cool, we're just swinging around, next time can my guy pilot the lunar module?

yep absolutely, but then again, if he does good in training, he may end up the mission Commander ;-)

Congratuations on your voyage to the Moon.
God bless.

The astronauts send you their thanks.

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OOC: This mission information is current by a matter of less than 40 minutes ;-) as are the pictures

The crew is in preparation for its final two-three days enroute to the moon in which it will fly by. During the past couple days a couple of major events took place. The first being the transposition and docking of the CSM and LM (Command+Service Modules and Lunar Module). The second took place less than an hour ago.

Course Correction Burn 1
Occured at 5:37:41 am EST (today)
Sun's gravitational Influence- 0.58G
Earths's Gravitational Influence- 0.42G
Fuel Before Burn- 98.7%
Fuel After Burn- 89.8%

Lunar Fly-by Information
Closest Approach- 585.8 km
Estimated Velocity at Perigee- 2,175 m/s
Delta V Requied For Lunar Orbit Insertion- 120. m/s


Mission Pictures
http://www.vussp.com/nationstates/apollo6.jpg

http://www.vussp.com/nationstates/apollo7.jpg

http://www.vussp.com/nationstates/apollo8.jpg

http://www.vussp.com/nationstates/apollo9.jpg

http://www.vussp.com/nationstates/apollo10.jpg

http://www.vussp.com/nationstates/apollo11.jpg

http://www.vussp.com/nationstates/apollo12.jpg

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