Posted on 12/24/2014 8:54:36 AM PST by BenLurkin
Can we shield ships and living spaces from cosmic rays sufficiently to prevent radiation deaths in astronauts/settlers and birth defects in pregnant women?
Perfect! Everybody simply has holes in their floors through which to dump garbage and waste.
This “slowing down” is exactly what happens in a transfer orbit. An object, whether planet or spacecraft, in an elliptical orbit slows down as it travels from perihelion to aphelion. If it’s making a rendevous with another object in a circular orbit at that radius, It will be overtaken by the rendevous target and start to fall towards it as they get close.
Be sure to take along plenty of supplies and a few decks of cards (no chips).
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