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let's say you were in charge of making some sort of space program(project) and you picked exploration?
You were placed in charge of creating a new space project of some sort, lets say you choose exploration you had to design some ships crew etc how would you do it ? How big are the ships, what they look like etc..
I would say we use a fleet of vessels, sort of like a convoy it would work out best because we could have 2 small ground crew ships (the ones who land), some sort of security crew ship(or emergency response team/a bacckup) a resource ship loaded with supplies that could come in handy. (Maybe extra storage for what we find), and the command ship (call it the mothership) who control every thing. Btw maybe an unmanned empty craft for recovery of minerals etc this isnt called for in some scenarios. How would you design the mission (include a personnel count for ships if your willing).
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- PhotonXLv 77 years agoFavorite Answer
How do we do exploration on Earth. Do we send out entire fleets of ships for an oceanographic study? No, we send out single ships, unless there is a defined requirement for multiple craft. It is far more efficient to have all resources centralized in a single ship, for the reasons UnknownPerson says (who *is* that person, anyway?). You would carry smaller craft along, as a ship carries launches for harbor use, but they would remain safely within the mother ship until needed.
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- 7 years ago
First of all you forgot to take into account how your ships are going to be propelled through space. Sure it would be nice to have a giant mothership however what would you use for its propulsion systems? If you used the classic rocket fuel, think of how much space it would take to store that much fuel and how much fuel you would need.
Honestly I think I would just choose one ship with a crew of six people plus me. In order to travel through interstellar space, I need a way to travel quickly and fuel efficiently. Just like a sun creates energy through nuclear fusion I would create a fusion reactor that would propel my ship. I would direct the propulsion using magnetic fields as the fusion process would be so hot it would burn any material it touched, instantly.
My ship would be able to zip through interstellar space at speeds mankind has not yet traveled. We would do exploration one planet at a time. I would be the explorer, going to planets first and deciding if they are habitable or worth sending more ships to. From that point we could begin colonizing other exoplanets across the universe and making mankind's footprint just a little bit bigger.
