Part 32: Fall 1964: Pre-Vote
Today in the news, some sort of idiot! In slightly more tragic for the program news, however...
Grissom's retiring for family reasons. This puts him 1 mission away from retirement, and everyone knows how that tends to go...
Anyways, you guys only have 47 MB and it's going to take all but 9 of it to fund your two missions. If I had a little more time to burn before I had to go to work, I'd just run this turn now and end out the year, but unfortunately I don't. I suppose you guys might decide to scrub something to do other work anyway, so I'll give you a bit of voting time just in case!
Purchased Projects and relevant information
Ranger Satellite
Unit Cost: 4
R&D Cost Per Team: 3
Unit Weight: 700
Current Safety: 92%
Max R&D: 90%
Max Safety: 93%
Other Notes: This is for the various Flyby missions.
Atlas
Unit Cost: 3
R&D Cost Per Team: 2
Max Payload: 600
Current Safety: 86%
Max R&D: 84%
Max Safety: 98%
Titan
Unit Cost: 12
R&D Cost Per Team: 4
Max Payload: 1500
Current Safety: 98%
Max R&D: 90%
Max Safety: 98%
Saturn V
Unit Cost: 18
R&D Cost Per Team: 6
Max Payload: 3200
Current Safety: 60%
Max R&D: 95%
Max Safety: 98%
Mercury Capsule
Unit Cost: 2
R&D Cost Per Team: 1
Unit Weight: 500
Current Safety: 81%
Max R&D: 80%
Max Safety: 90%
Other Notes: One man capsule. No Lunar Landings or Docking ability.
Gemini Capsule
Unit Cost: 6
R&D Cost Per Team: 2
Unit Weight: 1200
Current Safety: 92%
Max R&D: 84%
Max Safety: 94%
Other Notes: Two man capsule. Can make it to the moon with a kicker and also dock. Can use a 1 man LM.
Cricket Module
Unit Cost: 8
R&D Cost Per Team: 4
Unit Weight: 1000
Current Safety: 30%
Max R&D: 90%
Max Safety: 94%
Other Notes: 1 man LM. Can be used with Gemini, Apollo, or XMS-2.
Kicker-B Booster
Unit Cost: 6
R&D Cost Per Team: 2
Unit Weight: 600
Current Safety: 92%
Max R&D: 94%
Max Safety: 96%
Other Notes: Need either this or Kicker-A for Lunar Missions not involving the Apollo or Jupiter. This is the stronger of the two and basically makes the A pointless unless you're running on the cheap.
EVA Suits
Unit Cost: 0
R&D Cost Per Team: 3
Unit Weight: 0
Current Safety: 92%
Max R&D: 91%
Max Safety: 94%
Other Notes: It's a spacesuit. Needed for EVA stuff.
Docking Module
Unit Cost: 2
Unit Weight: 300
Current Safety: 70%
Max R&D: NOT POSSIBLE
Max Safety: 93%
Other Notes: The only thing that CANNOT be researched. All safety improvement comes from live testing. Required for most of the Lunar Landing mission types.
Equipment List
Missions you could attempt
Refer to this post for a list of all possible missions
Astronaut Stats and Location
Grissom: Cap 3, LM 0, EVA 0, Dock 3, End 2, 66 Mood, Gemini Program, Retiring
Schirra: Cap 3, LM 2, EVA 0, Dock 0, End 1, 50 Mood, Gemini Program
Slayton: Cap 4, LM 1, EVA 1, Dock 0, End 1, 75 Mood, Gemini Program
Young: Cap 2, LM 3, EVA 1, Dock 2, End 0, 84 Mood Gemini Program
Cooper: Cap 3, LM 3, EVO 0, Dock 0, End 4, 84 Mood, ADV Dock
Conrad: Cap 4, LM 2, EVA 1, Dock 1, End 4, 88 Mood, ADV Dock
Borman: Cap 4, LM 0, EVA 2, Dock 0, End 2, 87 Mood, ADV Dock
Lovell: Cap 2, LM 3, EVA 0, Dock 1, END 3 81 Mood, Adv EVA
Armstrong: Cap 4, LM 4, EVA 1, Dock 2, End 1, 87 Mood, ADV END
See: Cap 2, LM 2, EVA 0, Dock 4, End 4, 82 Mood, ADV EVA
Knight: Cap 4, LM 3, EVA 2, Dock 0, End 1, 77 Mood, ADV Dock
Givens: Cap 4, LM 1, EVA 0, Dock 1, End 2, 77 Mood, ADV END
Cernan: Cap 2, LM 2, EVA 2, Dock 0, End 3, Basic II
Basset: Cap 2, LM 1, EVA 0, Dock 2, End 4, Basic II
Scott: Cap 2, LM 0, EVA 0, Dock 1, End 2, Basic II
Aldrin: Cap 3, LM 2, EVA 0, Dock 4, End 1, Basic II
Eisele: Cap 1, LM 0, EVA 0, Dock 0, End 4, Basic II
Cunningham: Cap 1, LM 0, EVA 0, Dock 0, End 3, Basic II
Schweickart: Cap 1, LM 2, EVA 2, Dock 1, End 0, Basic II
McCandless: Cap 1, LM 1, EVA 0, Dock 0, End 3, Basic II
Mitchell: Cap 1, LM 1, EVA 1, Dock 1, End 0, Basic II
Irwin: Cap 3, LM 0, EVA 1, Dock 1, End 1, Basic II
Ms. Beeson: Cap 1, LM 3, EVA 1, Dock 0, End 2, Basic II
Ms. Gorelick: Cap 4, LM 1, EVA 0, Dock 0, End 1, Basic II
Ms. Funk: Cap 3, LM 0, EVA 1, Dock 0, End 3, Basic II
Chaffee: Cap 1, LM 0, EVA 1, Dock 2, End 3, Basic II
Wood: Cap 1, LM 1, EVA 0, Dock 0, End 2, 60 Mood, Nowhere
Equipment in Stock
1 Kicker-B
1 Saturn V
1 Cricket Module
Missions to occur this season
Pad A: Unmanned Orbital Docking
Pad B: Manned Orbital Duration (D)
Voting for what to do will end at 6:00AM EST on Saturday, March 5th.