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I know the topic is in the wrong forum BUT, I just want to see who would be interested and get any feed back people may have regarding this.

I am Kaimoni Sutton (as some of you may know). I run an online Virtual Space agency. But before you go and say its childish, let me explain what we do and who we work with. My space agency called the Virtual United States Space Program (http://www.vussp.com) has been in operation for about 2.5-3 years REALISTICLY simulating space operations using a number of freeware programs which in my opinion should totally be payware. We have a few close ties to NASA as we work with a couple of its employees, and future employees, including people who are studying in the fields of aviation, nuclear physics and things of that nature. We also work with an aircraft design company that is currently doing business with the Boeing company (they are buying one of their designs i believe, but dont quote me on that just yet). They have designed us spacecraft that if build in real life, would fly, but for our purposes, they will be made for simulations using 'Orbiter' (http://www.orbitersim.com), the space simulator program we use.

Over the past couple years we have simulated OVER 30 unmanned space missions. A vast majority of the missions were earth based, however, we have sent probes to study the sun, and the moon. We have sent our astronauts to the moon, and are working dilligently to send a manned crew to mars by 2005. We have set up a space station which assembly started on back in April of 03', and we are beginning our program to send men BACK to the moon in preparation for the mars missions (we need to test out our theories and ideas as well as test long duration mission, something like nasa is going to do in the imminent futute, except we beat them to the concept lol- we have been planning this for at least a year).

The VUSSP is a non profit organization and we do teach everyone what they need to know to do thier jobs, whether they be a mission controller, an astronuat, or an director running a division. As i said we do train with nasa mission controllers so what we do is legit and real, to a point obviously. If anyone is interested in finding out more you can visit our website at http://www.vussp.com or leave a post here.

Here is a pictureof one of the moon spacecraft currently on our pad. Its goign to be launched unmanned on Saturday February 7, 2003 at 12 pm EST:
http://www.vussp.com/saturn1b.jpg

congratulations. Have a nice flight!

Thanks, its going to be a tense 6 hours

Any inside news about the fate of Hubble?

from what i hear, it may be phased out and taken offline, but thats just speculation. I know my NASA contact has been working on another telescope that is going to REPLACE the hubble telescope in coming years but thats all i can say about that

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Nice site .. I hope you guys can stay on it looks cool :wink:

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Nice site .. I hope you guys can stay on it looks cool :wink:

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Nice site .. I hope you guys can stay on it looks cool :wink:

Thank you ^__^, its been transforming and developing and expanding at an increasingly fast rate for the past 2 years.

.. its really peaked an intrest for me . :P

Looks awesome Credonia, I'd love to help out in any why I could, but since I know absolutely nothing about space travel, rocket science, nuclear physics, or anything of the sort...that sort of counts me out of it lol.

hey, dont be discouraged, we teach EVERYTHING you need to know and its all easy to learn, take it from me, im only 17 and this stuff is second nature knowledge to me.

Well, in that case, I might just look into it.

hey, dont be discouraged, we teach EVERYTHING you need to know and its all easy to learn, take it from me, im only 17 and this stuff is second nature knowledge to me.
:shock: Wow Im going to join you guys hehe for real this is cool. 8) 8)

Nice :P

Some of my freinds might be intrested in this .... i may start spreding the link if its ok with you :wink: :P

Some of my freinds might be intrested in this .... i may start spreding the link if its ok with you :wink: :P


spread the word, by all means, we need 50 mission controllers at least. we have 30 right now

Some of my freinds might be intrested in this .... i may start spreding the link if its ok with you :wink: :P


spread the word, by all means, we need 50 mission controllers at least. we have 30 right now

Well Do you have a flight director ? alredy ?

we need as many flight directors, or any other type of MC as we can get ;-) the more the better

we need as many flight directors, or any other type of MC as we can get ;-) the more the better

Well i applied to be one .. i hope my hot mail accout doseint register the e mail as spam.

dont worry, i got it, it goes straight into my VUSSP e-mail account (hdirector@vussp.com). I just added you to my msn messenger

I applied as a Payload officer...but I can't think of any of my friends that would be overly interested in this.

oh,. that was you who signed up as P.O. lol, i just added you to my msn messenger (i thought TFU signed up as P.O since thats the only app i got

Oh, by the way, some of the links on the site don't work because the links go to vussp.org, instead of vussp.com. You can just manually type in com instead of org when you go to them, but you might want to work on fixing that.

yea i know, we switched domains and the site just came back online on friday after 2 months of being offline due to the incompotent webhost, so im still working on fixing the hundred+ links on the site. please bear with me.

:? Yeah i was wodnering about that .

well any who if you have msn add me at RDX88E@HOTMAIL.COM

all right :P

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This is an old thread but it still applies.

I am interested in it. Can you give some more details about what I would have to do if I were to sign up?

OOC: Hey Cred, (you may remmember me as Rodavia, one of the nations you talked to concerning your help to NS Africa)

Thanks for the link. I have played Orbiter myself in the past, and can agree with you that it certainly is an excellent simulator. Damn difficult too - I had to give it up a month or so in due to lack of time, but I didn't even manage to master orbiting the Earth at that time without the help of one of the online guides. :( Considering this, I'm not sure how much use I would be, but I may join anyway and rekindle my love of rockets (you do any ICBM test launches from Vandenburg AFB? Could be interesting...)

Regards,

Chris

Depends on the job:

Astronaut: Fly manned missions, do the experiments, etc.

Mission Controller: Monitor the mission, via a mission control program, design missions, etc.

Staffer: Do whatever work you are called upon by your division heads to do (most likely research, development, or something of that nature)

Pilot: Using Microsoft Flight Simulator, test fly custom designed aircraft, perform atmospheric experiments and tests, train with the astronauts, fly range safety during manned launches, perform weather checks for various reasons, etc.

Depends on the job:

Astronaut: Fly manned missions, do the experiments, etc.

Mission Controller: Monitor the mission, via a mission control program, design missions, etc.

Staffer: Do whatever work you are called upon by your division heads to do (most likely research, development, or something of that nature)

Pilot: Using Microsoft Flight Simulator, test fly custom designed aircraft, perform atmospheric experiments and tests, train with the astronauts, fly range safety during manned launches, perform weather checks for various reasons, etc.

Well, I do have Flight Simulator '02 (virtual flying being another hobby I had to give up) and I could dust it off, run through the lessons and join as a pilot, maybe. I quite like the idea of being a test pilot. :D

OOC: Hey Cred, (you may remmember me as Rodavia, one of the nations you talked to concerning your help to NS Africa)

Thanks for the link. I have played Orbiter myself in the past, and can agree with you that it certainly is an excellent simulator. Damn difficult too - I had to give it up a month or so in due to lack of time, but I didn't even manage to master orbiting the Earth at that time without the help of one of the online guides. :( Considering this, I'm not sure how much use I would be, but I may join anyway and rekindle my love of rockets (you do any ICBM test launches from Vandenburg AFB? Could be interesting...)

Regards,

Chris


Well considering the fact that we train ALL people who join the VUSSP, your skills now dont really matter, but they would be of some help in your training, should you join. Orbiter isnt all that hard to master. If you fly the space shuttle and look at your surface MFD, and you realize what data your looking at and what it means, you will realize what the hec your doing lol. Thats how i learned to fly the shuttle and launch into orbit even though it took me a friggin month to figure it out despite the fact that everything i know about space and space exploration and NASA went into making the VUSSP lol. (7 or so years worth, and i was only abotu 14 when i made the VUSSP).

As for ICBM launches, not really. Were not on the military side of things, tho we were at one time. However we do have very few launches from vandenburg using the Delta rocket, but that is only for specific missions that need that launch facility to get into polar orbits. We havent done one of those launches in over a year though.

Cred,

Well, I'll look at the site and certainly consider joining. Can I ask when most of the launches & other activites take place day-wise (e.g. weekends)? I'm on holiday now, but obviously college would be a time-consumer.

Well, I do have Flight Simulator '02 (virtual flying being another hobby I had to give up) and I could dust it off, run through the lessons and join as a pilot, maybe. I quite like the idea of being a test pilot. :D


Forget taking the lessons on FS lol. With the things you'll be flying, you might as well just fly according to the VUSSP's pilot training program, well what little of it we have. We used to have a fully functional pilot program, however, the orbiter aspect of things took us over and pushed the MSFS pilot program aside until recently, and now were trying to get it back on its feet. Perhaps you could lend some help there if you wanted, should you join.

Cred,

FYI, the link to the Aeronautics Division on the VUSSP website seems to be down. :)

Cred,

Well, I'll look at the site and certainly consider joining. Can I ask when most of the launches & other activites take place day-wise (e.g. weekends)? I'm on holiday now, but obviously college would be a time-consumer.


We try to be mindful of our people's busy schedule, they may have school, or work, or whatever, so we try to have mot launches on the weekend, mainly saturday, sometmes sunday, but there are some launches that you cant pick a launch date for due to the limited launch window. But you dont HAVE to be at every launch. As for long duration missions which are defined as missions lasting for moe than 24 hours, then we have different mission control teams that control during different times of the day, to accomodate their schedules, whether it be on the weekend or throughout the week.

Cred,

FYI, the link to the Aeronautics Division on the VUSSP website seems to be down. :)

Yea, the aeronautics (pilot) division is still in the remaking. I'll put up an under construction page momentarily so no one thinks its a dead link

Cred,

I am certainly interested in joining as a pilot. Is there much online flying to be done? I have no experience in this or how to do it (get online to fly, that is.)

Yes, very nice site & idea and all...
But the soundtrack is awfull! (sorry....) except the intro, that was kind of ok.
You really should do somthing about it! lol.....
A bit more atmospheric sounds, easy going beats would do the work...

Is there much flying, well, it depends. You have to gain flight hours to progress to the next flight rank. Certain flight ranks allow you to do certain things. The minimum requirement of flight hours logged with the VUSSP that you need to have to become an astronaut is 60 i forget how many you need to get a test pilot rating, but for now, that is disregarded since theres no real operating aeronautics division, and probably wont be before september, however, if you want to log hours and increase your rating, then yea theres a bit. check out the routes page for information on the planes flown, the flight plans we offer at this time, and rank information. http://www.vussp.com/routes.php As for flying ONLINE, we fly on a network called IVAO. They allow us to do our simulated flying on there. Its like a real world flight environment, with ATC, and other pilots online and flying or air traffic controlling, anywhere in the world. You will need to sign up with them, and they will show you how to set your Flight Sim up to fly online. http://www.ivao.org

Yes, very nice site & idea and all...
But the soundtrack is awfull! (sorry....) except the intro, that was kind of ok.
You really should do somthing about it! lol.....
A bit more atmospheric sounds, easy going beats would do the work...

LOL, the music is coming off of the archives site. I just put it up to see how it would work out. The archive is actually only visible because i uploaded the pages to show a few people and get their ideas on it. Im gonna take it back down and try to finish it up in a timely manner. (its a pain in the ass to work with, the whole site is actually)

As for the intro and music on it, that stays :-P, otherwise, thanks for the compliment

Cred,

Thanks for answering the large amount of questions. :) I'll keep the link and most likely sign up within a few days (after I check my computer, flight sim etc is all working good.)

Regards,

Chris.

Cred,

Thanks for answering the large amount of questions. :) I'll keep the link and most likely sign up within a few days (after I check my computer, flight sim etc is all working good.)

Regards,

Chris.


My pleasure. If you have any other questions, feel free to reply here, or you can drop me a direct e-mail at hdirector@vussp.com. I look forward to seeing your sign-up in my inbox soon. Thanks.

On August 2, 2004, VUSSP Director Kaimoni Sutton gave authorized to VUSSP JPL staff to begin the planning of the next great endeavour in the agency's unmanned space program. VUSSP administrator Kevin Martin was appointed to the position of Program Director for the new Venus Discoverer program, the next phase in the VUSSP's Discovery series of unmanned missions. Venus Discoverer's goal is to explore, examine, and study the planet Venus using state of the art and newly designed scientific equipment built specifically for this task.

Venus, Earth's sister planet, is blanketed by a thick cloud layer, a result of a runaway greenhouse effect. The Venus Discoverer program will try to find the answers to how and why this happened, and will also conduct extended atmospheric and short duration suface experiments to further stuty this mystifying planet. It is hoped that many questions will be answered by this program.

A launch schedule for this program has not been set, however, a launch window has been selected, but further information on this program will be released in coming weeks and months. The first mission of the Venus Discoverer program will not begin before December 2, 2004.

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