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Options:
1. Parachute
2. Jetpack
3. Radio (for remote control vehicles / communications)
4. Inflatable Reentry Pod (Think MOOSE)
5. Tether system
Each items should take up 1 slot. Each drood should have 2.
These options may be expanded as more features get added.
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514 OldCoach
@Tweedle_Aerospace The Russian Vostok cosmonauts ejected from the capsule at about 10,000 feet and landed by parachute. The reason for that is the Vostok main chute couldn't slow the capsule enough for a safe landing. The original Vostok cosmonauts were chosen in part because of their expertise in skydiving.
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4,796 TweedleAerospace
@Infinite17 that doesn’t mean they should be indefinitely strong
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135 s89Aerospace
@Tweedle_Aerospace you have good points. I was just giving a few ideas as examples.
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4,796 TweedleAerospace
Also they aren’t jet packs as they don’t use jets. They use hypergolic propellant similar to some RCS’.
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4,796 TweedleAerospace
So many problems with this. But I will start with the biggest three:
1. Why would we have radio communications when they can’t talk and you can’t control multiple at a singular time?
2. No inflatable reentry pod has ever been tested or even sent into space that I am aware of. Plus the astronauts themselves aren’t meant to hold them during space walks. They are meant to be more like lifeboats for space stations and/or long duration space transport that can be simply moved out of the stations.
3. Astronauts have never used a parachute. The closest we have ever gotten were the ejection seats on the Space Shuttle, Buran, and tested during the Mercury Program. Parachutes are not realistic in terms of extra mass.
4. The tether system is not directly attached to an astronaut. They don’t go around the entire mission with them. They are kept as part of the station/space vehicle.
I could see the if the droods got into a war with one an other, them using the Radio controller to control something like a R.C.X.D as a way to fight each other from a distance. But I agree with you that they should have different things and a inventory.