This is a rendering of a vehicle that consists of 48 spheres each 1 meter in diameter attached to

an 8.5 meter diameter aeroshell made of aerogel. Each of these spheres contain a smaller 61.5
centimeter diameter sphere. The smaller sphere contains 138.8 kg of liquid oxygen. The larger
sphere contains 28.7 kg of liquid hydrogen in the space between. They are connected by a
header that pumps the two liquified gases to the outer sphere!s outer surface. On the surface
are an array of MEMS based micro fuel cells and MEMS based rocket arrays along with
miniaturized avionics, sensors, interconnection hardware, cross-feed umbilicals along with
power and data networking. All the hardware have a total mass of 7.45 kg. The propellant mass
totals 167.55 kg producing a total system mass per sphere of 175.00 kg.

This system is designed for one astronaut wearing a long-duration spacesuit.

This design is based upon the work of Paul Webb and Dava Newman.
Instead of filling the suit with air, the suit is an elastic leotard. This makes if
far less complex, less costly, and lighter. Combined with MEMS based fuel
cells, Sabatier reactors and other microscopic life support systems, the entire
suit and life support is 32 kg. The astronaut may mass up to 93 kg. A total
of 125 kg payload.
The traveller sitting at the center of a 48 of these
spheres, each of which have their own Lift Off
propulsion system, and with interconnection of
propellant, are fired using the propellant of other
spheres

which allows a multi-element

flight system to be built made
of many common elements
that are made in-espensively.

To fly to the moon and back

along a direct ascent trajectory
requires that the payload be
carried through a change in
speed (delta vee) of 16 km/ First Stage
sec.

Using MEMS based hydrogen/oxygen engines

Second Stage
with an exhaust speed of 4.5 km/sec we have a
total propellant fraction of

" "u = 1 - 1/exp(Vf/Ve) = 1 - 1/exp(16/4.5) = 0.97143

Which leaves less than 4.26% of the total mass. "

So, we break it up into five stages - dividing 16
km/sec by 5 we obtain 3.2 km/sec

" "u = 50.9% "propellant

Second Stage
With 4.26% structure this leaves 44.84%
payload. " That is each stage of 2.23x larger
than the previous stage.
Third Stage
Since the payload is 125 kg + 16.8 kg of boil off
over 10 days = 141.8 kg

" "141.8 " " " "Payload

" "316.2 " " " "Earth Return
" "705.2 " " " "Lunar Landing
1,572.5 Lunar Injection
3,506.7 Booster
7,819.9 Lift off
Third Stage
0.6 - Consumed on Trip. Fourth Stage
1.2 - Earth Return
"2.2 - Lunar Landing - Fourth Stage
" 6 - Lunar Injection - Third Stage
12 - Second Stage
26 - Lift Off Mechanical Counter Pressure Suit
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48 - Total