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

We congratulate the United States of Credonia on this fine achievement. Sometime in the future, we may consider sending a man into space ourselves...

We congratulate the United States of Credonia on this fine achievement. Sometime in the future, we may consider sending a man into space ourselves...

Thank you and if you would like some assistance in reaching that goal, we would be more than willing to assist you

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The Empire of Solimin congratulates Credonia on their fine achievment. We hope that further space missions do not go haywire.



Monk Emperor Solrin Hiesgod



OOC: How did you get those pics?

OOC: a program that my virtual space program uses http://www.vussp.com

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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

OOC: may i ask what program you used to make that

OOC: Orbiter

OOC: where you get that from?

OOC: http://www.orbitersim.com

I suggest you only get it if you have hours and hours and months and months to devote to learning how to use it. With my immense knowledge it took me over a month to figure out just how to get into a simple orbit (and that's hard enough as it is and i had 7 yrs worth of knowledge of this stuff backing me up when i first learned).

Just a word to the wise

OOC: ok something tells me you love space or ur in NASA and if you are you must be smart and fi ur not you must be smart

OOC: LOL im 17, and i run a virtual space agency (i founded and am still the director of it now). We work with employees FROM nasa although their actual participation is minimal for the moment due to developments there (they have REALLY busy schedules)

http://www.vussp.com

Hail Comrades,

The Republic Of Social Theocracy congratulates you on this great scientific achievement...

Hail Comrades,

The Republic Of Social Theocracy congratulates you on this great scientific achievement...

Thank you

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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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We are just 1 day away from lunar rendevouz and mission commander Colonel James Madison has made the risky decision of completing a couple of lunar orbits instead of going along with the prescribed flight plan. He will to approximately 2 orbits before heading back to earth. Total orbit time should be less than 3 hours. The following pictures have been taken of the crew approaching the moon:


http://www.vussp.com/nationstates/apollo13.jpg

http://www.vussp.com/nationstates/apollo14.jpg

http://www.vussp.com/nationstates/apollo15.jpg

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