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Rocket Design Agency - A Playtesting Quest

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  • Informational
    • NASA
    Brad L. Whipple - Director, New Alleghany Space Administration

    Payload Design - +1
    Rocket Design - +2
    Engine Design - +3
    Mission Planning - +1
    Flight Control - +2
    Damage Control - +0
    Spacecraft Activity - +0
    Extravehicular Activity - +0
    Experimental Activity - +2

    Flight Objectives
    - Continue scientific launches, progressing to probes into the space beyond orbit by year end 1959.
    - Begin experiments which will allow a progression to human spaceflight before year end 1960.
    - Cooperate with the Armed Forces in developing their abilities through the application of spaceflight.

    Mission Schedule - Current Date: January 1960
    - Low Orbit 1 (Summer 1958) - Hope-2 (Partial failure)
    - Re-entry test 1 - Sub-orbital - Full Success, August 1958
    - Low Orbit 2 - Partial Failure, Hope-3 , October 1958
    - Re-entry test 2 - Failure, November 1958
    - Military Communications - Success, ARTS, December 1958
    - High Orbit 1 - Success, Hope-4, January 1959
    - Re-entry test 3 - Success, March 1959
    - Bio-sciences - Launch Failure, July 1959
    - Discovery 1, Success, September 1959
    - High Orbit 2 - Success, Hope-5, October 1959
    - Lunar Probe - Launch Failure, Artemis-Lunar, November 1959
    - Bio-sciences - Success, Astrocaphe-Chuck, December 1959
    - Discovery 2 - Failure, January 1960
    - Astrocathe test - Success, animal in space, February 1960
    - March lost due to Artemis redesign
    - NAN payload - April 1960 - First Hermes Flight
    - Crown 3 - Spring/Summer 1960
    - Commercial payload - Summer 1960
    - IRVOS 1 - Summer 1960
    - NAA Communications - Summer/Fall 1960
    - Space Camp test - Summer/Fall 1960
    - NAN payload - Fall/Winter 1960
    - Commercial payload -Winter 1960
    - Astrocathe test - Winter 1960
    - NAA Communications - Spring 1961

    - Astrocaphe phase 1 (3 crewed flights)
    - Astrocaphe phase 2 (3 crewed flights)

    Hardware
    - Prometheus (1M to LEO)
    - Hermes-L (6M to LEO)
    - Hermes-B (8M to LEO)

    Andre Larkin - Team Lead at EPL
    Rocket Design 0
    Engine Design +2


    EPL Design Team
    Antony Miratha, Aerodynamics
    Susan Stone, Astrophysics
    Michael Cole, Rocket Engineering
    Amy Mathews, Trajectory Planning
    Simon T. Harrison, Chemical Engineering

    +2 Rocket Design, +2 Payload Design +1 Engine Design, +1 Fuel Selection, +1 Flight Planning

    Side Characters
    Dr. Evan Hart - Research Director at EPL
    Arthur Ley, proponent of Lunar flight.
    Franz Haber, Doctor and researcher.
    Dieter von Markand, Pacifist and astrophysicist.

    EPL Facilities
    Design workshop
    Chemical research laboratory
    Launch analysis equipment
    (Please note that EPL has neither rocket nor engine manufacturing facilities)
     
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    • [X] Greater Caspia, a post-revolutionary monarchy.
    [X] A Rocket Engineer
     
    HMS Sophia said:
    It's a monarchist state that has experienced a violent revolution but survived in some form.
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    Please let it be through Socialist Napoleon! Or maybe Comrade Tsar, as a parallel to Philippe Egalité?

    I voted for man becuase we are already explorjng women and non-binary people in the other quests set in Gaya.

    I hope here we will see the perspective of a bi- or homosexual man, which is sorta rare on this site.
     
    [X] New Alleghany, a continental superpower.
    [X] A Man
     
    Oh no I loooooove me some chromed up Soviet rockets, but these aren't soviets. They have a Czar! Gross!
     
    10ebbor10 said:
    Besides, if we want a decent rocket, we need to get the Nazi's to build one.

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    :thonk:

    I feel like pointing out the Atlas, Thor (which emerged into the Delta), and Titan rockets. All of which deserve more recognition in the 60s. Now that reminds me of what a weird image it might've been to see a Titan loft an Apollo CSM (one of the proposals being debated by the Nixon BoB/OMB before the Shuttle was eventually picked)...
     
    [X] New Alleghany, a continental superpower.
    [X] A Man

    I want to see if we can beat the Soviets to orbit. It should be possible - if the Chuck Yeager equivalent has broken the sound barrier in the X-1, we should have a viable upper stage engine, and if we can get a V-2 equivalent first stage, we might be able to get the rest of the way into orbit with a less nuts version of the Explorer SRM clusters.
     
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    Ash19256 said:
    I want to see if we can beat the Soviets to orbit. It should be possible - if the Chuck Yeager equivalent has broken the sound barrier in the X-1, we should have a viable upper stage engine, and if we can get a V-2 equivalent first stage, we might be able to get the rest of the way into orbit with a less nuts version of the Explorer SRM clusters.
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    Given that there aren't any Soviets, that'll be trivial. Caspia is still a monarchy, having somehow survived the revolution. And without the mass heavy industrialization of the Soviet Union, I have my doubts on their capability to support a rapid space program.

    Though honestly, everything depends on what this universe's version of WW2 looked like. Is Europa in ruins? Has Caspia lost an entire generation? Was Akitsukini nuked? Did not meaningfull happen to mainland USA?
     
    Shebe Zuu said:
    I don't think the soviets are a thing in this timeline?
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    I meant more like "I want to reach orbit before October 4th, 1957"
    10ebbor10 said:
    Given that there aren't any Soviets, that'll be trivial. Caspia is still a monarchy, having somehow survived the revolution. And without the mass heavy industrialization of the Soviet Union, I have my doubts on their capability to support a rapid space program.

    Though honestly, everything depends on what this universe's version of WW2 looked like. Is Europa in ruins? Has Caspia lost an entire generation? Was Akitsukini nuked? Did not meaningfull happen to mainland USA?
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    Good points regarding Caspia's potential industrialization (although there's no reason that the monarch couldn't be forcing heavy industrialization) and what WW2 looked like, although that also means that it depends at least a little on whether Aircraft Designer Quest is canonical to this quest or not.
     
    If we had Soviets, I'd be voting for Soviets in the name of good old Syrgy Pavylyvych, from another quest I played in years long forgotten. But without that...

    [X] New Alleghany, a continental superpower.

    open_sketchbook said:
    I gotta say, I am a little intrigued by the introduction of this new gender to the Gayaverse. What can you tell me about these... "mans"???
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    [deadpans]

    "The key is to understand one underlying, essential truth. Namely, that in one way or another, every man is out to prove, by one means or another, that he's got nothing to prove."

    [Yes this is entirely me attempting to tell a joke. Also to make a Napoleon Dynamite reference]
     
    Crasian01 said:

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    [X] New Alleghany, a continental superpower.
    [X] A Man
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    While making a Saturn V at some point might be neat, I would probably sooner vote for something like Saturn Multibody from Eyes Turned Skywards. It's a more practical launcher system, and can be used in multi-launch mode to assemble missions of similar complexity and capability, or could potentially be expanded to mimic the capabilities of the Saturn V.
     
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