"Yes, in some types of mission it could be better.
QUESTION FROM JON: Did it feel as though you were along for the ride on some type of covert mission?
This was the type of mission that earlier in the war would have been fun: us knowing and seeing, them dumb and blind.
Mrs. Grey had even taped a blown-up photocopy of the paragraph to her office wall — a type of mission statement.
In fact, finding the right person for this type of mission is even more important than providing him (or her) with the right mix of language training, role-playing exercises and technical expertise before the deployment.
However, unlike the space-station jaunts, a trip around the moon would not be a mere commercial recapitulation of a type of mission that had already been flown.Soyuz, Russia's manned spacecraft, is a tried and tested design, but it has never been to the moon.
"Depending on the type of mission, you'd have a different configuration," he explained.
This type of mission profile results in a total mission delta-V of ∼4.4 km/s.
For each type of mission, solutions for navigation, control, coordination, and communications are presented.
However, the cost related to this type of mission is extremely steep.
