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Old 17-December-2008, 07:39 PM
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You would require a spacesuit, or you would die a quick death. Even so, once you reached terminal velocity, you would be under 2.5 g. Not deadly, but certainly uncomfortable. But the ride down would hardly be smooth, given the fierce winds, some of which rage around 200 miles an hour. It's not the velocity, though. Rather, it's the change in velocity as you descend from one stream heading in one direction, through the turbulent layer between them, to another stream heading in the opposite direction.

Besides, even with a spacesuit, at nearly -200 deg F by the time you reach 1 bar, it's a chilly ride.
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If I set the budget, we'd have Ares and more. Unfortunately, I don't set the budget, and Ares is just too expensive and too far out for us to accomplish our goals within the budget we were given.

If we halt the ISS, all versions of Ares, and transport Orion and Altair aboard DIRECTv3's Jupiter family of Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicles, we just might make it back to the Moon by 2020.
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