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This isnt spam or anything. 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 has been in operation for about 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', 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 an old picture of one of the spacecraft successfully launched on Saturday February 7, 2003 at 12 pm EST:
http://www.vussp.com/apollo5.jpg

Heres another picture of a rocket launched prior to the one above:

http://www.vussp.com/saturn1b.jpg

Looks pretty interesting.

Looks pretty interesting.


should join if your interested

should join if your interested

What good would I do? I can't cough up any membership fee, I don't have any experience in aeronautical design, my physics is good but its got no math along with it.

lol... LRR, its just simulation...

I could join this if I really want to remember the physics that I forgot... :D

What good would I do? I can't cough up any membership fee, I don't have any experience in aeronautical design, my physics is good but its got no math along with it.


We train everyone who wants to learn, thats not a problem at all.

What if you have no interest in math or science but excell in Politics and History?

What if you have no interest in math or science but excell in Politics and History?
The VUSSP isnt for you then. Sorry

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Question:

We design rockets which are wonderful for terrestrial flight - as in streamlined. Why do you not consider Werner Von Braun's idea of a space station which receives ground vehicles to LEO, then ships from the station to space? The limitations of terrestrial flight are not applicable to spaceflight.

Interesting idea. We've never really researched it as that isnt one of our primary objectives at this time, but im willing to bet that William Mitchell the VUSSP's JPL Director may be interested in the idea. In fact, if you e-mailed him, he'd probably like the idea. If you want to e-mail him with your idea, his e-mail address is jpl@vussp.com

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We train everyone who wants to learn, thats not a problem at all.

Oh, excellent. I am quite interested in joining. Is there a fee?

no fee. were a non-profit organization, plus it wouldnt be right for me to charge people lol.

Hell. This is as close to space exploration any of us will come any time soon. Unless of course you're a Back Street Boy with $20 million burning a hole in your pocket. Keep up the good work. Do you have any plans for the moons of Saturn?

Hell. This is as close to space exploration any of us will come any time soon. Unless of course you're a Back Street Boy with $20 million burning a hole in your pocket. Keep up the good work. Do you have any plans for the moons of Saturn?

Isn't that what Cassini's doing now? Or do you mean the moons besides titan. There's only, what? 30 others?

But how do you join? This looks like an interesting organization.

Thanks, and do we have plans for a visit to Saturn or its moons? Not at this time. We will most likely develop some plans by next year. A coupel days ago we announced tha we were planning a trip to venus, we have a 4 day launch window in December (December 2- 16) to launch a few probes so planning has gotten under way on that.

To join, all ya had to do was click on the sign up link on the navigation panel lol. Heres the link for ya tho:

http://www.vussp.com/signup.php

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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Okay that's enough bumps Cred.

:D

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We are now in need of astronauts, mission controllers, and administrators. Almost all positions are open

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AHH!
STOP IT!

Hey, that's Orbiter. I have that program.

AHH!
STOP IT!

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oh and btw............

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Most interesting. I didn't check every part of the site. Is it strickly for simulating actual mission, or is there any interest in vehicle design ideas?
I have a curiosity of self-renewing life support system on a space vehicle (ala biosphere).
A manned space station was on the list at your site. Was it the plan to follow what has been done (the International Space station) or is there plans to be more creative?

Most interesting. I didn't check every part of the site. Is it strickly for simulating actual mission, or is there any interest in vehicle design ideas?
I have a curiosity of self-renewing life support system on a space vehicle (ala biosphere).
A manned space station was on the list at your site. Was it the plan to follow what has been done (the International Space station) or is there plans to be more creative?


We dont simulate actual missions. We stick to realistic operations, however, we do not strictly stick to modern day launch vehicles. We have a nuclear powered space shuttle, the first of its kind in design. Actually, the designis complete. We just need to find someone who can do the c++ coding for us so that we can begin test flying it and preparing it for its maiden voyage into space.

Also, our space station will in no way shape or form follow the construction pattern of the ISS. In fact, we already have a plan of what we need to send up, and the modules ready and waiting to be launched and assembled. The only thing is, we need to establish a new time table since the organization went inactive for some period of time (which is mostly my fault due to time constraints moderated by school, drill team, and work). We do as much as we can in the creativity department while sticking within the parameters of realistic space flight operations. Something that some of the people at NASA who we have worked with, have been excited about and impressed with.

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