Re: Let's play: Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space
Posted: 2011-06-12 07:48pm
Plan Pavylyvych, Spring 1963
As we enter the new year, most of you will begin to see growing emphasis on the more advanced rocket and capsule technology which will carry us through the mid-1960s! Most of our resources will be dedicated to the perfection of the "Voskhod-plus" capsule design* and the beginning of work on the extremely heavy lift Proton rocket. All your hard work will be rewarded with feats of commienist science and ingenuity which will far exceed any short-term gains that Murcan propagandists might presume to trumpet in the coming year.
Due to results of recent testing by Dr. Anton Vanko, the new Chief of Extravehicular Excursion Research, the experimental "piss on Murca from orbit" EVA suit program is placed on indefinite hold. Resumption of the program will most likely require new advances in suit design, and we are instead concentrating on a more general-purpose suit design suited for tasks such as labor in space.
*Author's note: since the Zenobian Vostok program has been such an embarrassment compared to the historical one, I imagine the Zenobian Voskhod as somewhat less of a crude upscaling of the Vostok design: they actually sit down and try to work out something that incorporates some of the progressive features that historically went into Soyuz, which the Zenobians will probably never develop in recognizable form. Something closer in performance to the historical Gemini capsule
Starting budget: 112 MB
Facilities
10 MB for reconstruction of Pad B
Remaining budget, 102 MB
Research and Development
60 MB: Begin Proton rocket development.
10 MB for 5 teams on Voskhod Capsule research.
2 MB for 1 team on Booster Stage research.
5 MB for 5 teams on EVA Suit research.
R&D budget: 77 MB
Remaining budget, 25 MB
Launch Scheduling
Schedule one satellite launch for Fall 1963.
[Voskhod is simply not going to be ready and man-rated before Spring 1964, let's be realistic-ish here, and I see no point in scheduling unmanned launches before I've hit Max R&D. And I am really paranoid and tired of rocket failures after the disasters of 1957-59 and the Derevnya Gadyukino fuckup. Also there is, statistically speaking, a small prestige payoff for my budget in the long run, even after risk of failure is factored in.]
Remaining budget: 13 MB
As we enter the new year, most of you will begin to see growing emphasis on the more advanced rocket and capsule technology which will carry us through the mid-1960s! Most of our resources will be dedicated to the perfection of the "Voskhod-plus" capsule design* and the beginning of work on the extremely heavy lift Proton rocket. All your hard work will be rewarded with feats of commienist science and ingenuity which will far exceed any short-term gains that Murcan propagandists might presume to trumpet in the coming year.
Due to results of recent testing by Dr. Anton Vanko, the new Chief of Extravehicular Excursion Research, the experimental "piss on Murca from orbit" EVA suit program is placed on indefinite hold. Resumption of the program will most likely require new advances in suit design, and we are instead concentrating on a more general-purpose suit design suited for tasks such as labor in space.
*Author's note: since the Zenobian Vostok program has been such an embarrassment compared to the historical one, I imagine the Zenobian Voskhod as somewhat less of a crude upscaling of the Vostok design: they actually sit down and try to work out something that incorporates some of the progressive features that historically went into Soyuz, which the Zenobians will probably never develop in recognizable form. Something closer in performance to the historical Gemini capsule
Starting budget: 112 MB
Facilities
10 MB for reconstruction of Pad B
Remaining budget, 102 MB
Research and Development
60 MB: Begin Proton rocket development.
10 MB for 5 teams on Voskhod Capsule research.
2 MB for 1 team on Booster Stage research.
5 MB for 5 teams on EVA Suit research.
R&D budget: 77 MB
Remaining budget, 25 MB
Launch Scheduling
Schedule one satellite launch for Fall 1963.
[Voskhod is simply not going to be ready and man-rated before Spring 1964, let's be realistic-ish here, and I see no point in scheduling unmanned launches before I've hit Max R&D. And I am really paranoid and tired of rocket failures after the disasters of 1957-59 and the Derevnya Gadyukino fuckup. Also there is, statistically speaking, a small prestige payoff for my budget in the long run, even after risk of failure is factored in.]
Remaining budget: 13 MB