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Can you help solve a puzzle?

WSH Leonov & Io 118

What is this spaceship?

I'm pretty sure this is the same model, in a different museum, before it settled at AMMI.

Mystery model on display at COSI
Mystery model on display at COSI

Date: 2007-05-03 09:39 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] beamjockey.livejournal.com
(Incidentally, don't you think Clarke and Hyams seriously downplayed the nastiness of Jupiter's radiation environment in the vicinity of Io? I wouldn't go spacewalking around there, that's for sure.)

Yeah, big time.

Clarke is too smart for this, so perhaps he did some handwave in the novel that I've forgotten. Time for another trip to the cellar!

Date: 2007-05-07 05:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mmcirvin.livejournal.com
...Also, I seem to recall that the Discovery had settled down at the L1 point between Io and Jupiter, which I don't think actually makes any sense at all, since that's not stable. The L4 or L5 points would make more sense, but then Discovery would be nowhere near Io itself, depriving us of the nice Io scenery.

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