What do you think about this as an addition at the end of the story ?
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Thor Heyerdahl mission, captain’s debriefing:
“… as I told in my report, the Heyerdahls systems performed as well as planned. The concept of the Interplanetary Space Vehicles should allow ESA to move out into the solar system, both with unmanned and manned missions.
But there are still a few points which have to be addressed by ESA, which have more to do with the Fen out there in the solar system. During the mission the crew and me collected a large number of congratulation messages, both from single Fen we met on our way to Mars and members of the larger faction out there, like this video message here:
»The entire office staff stopped what they were doing to look out the big window at the top of the station. This was a historic event, after all.
The man in charge turned to the closest member of the administration staff - an intern who was getting some experience in space. "Minerva, take a memo, please. 'To the crew of the Thor Heyerdahl, from Sullivan Dwyer, Chief Administrator of the Artemis Foundation. Welcome to Mars and congratulations for making it here the hard way. If you have time while you're here, please stop by my office on Odyssey and I'll buy you a round of whatever your favorites are.' If you got all that, please send it off... assuming you can get a signal to them without it being swamped by everyone else's well-wishes.«
ESA must not forget that we are no longer are researchers moving out into an empty and dark solar system, everywhere we will get there will be people to meet. This has to be addressed in a number of ways, both technological and operational:
* Each crew should have basic diplomatic training and knowledge about the local Fen community. This will prevents misunderstanding on our flights.
* Each ESA crew should take some amount of money with them, this might be more important that some of the spare parts. If an ISV gets into trouble we might be able to buy the spare parts from the local Fen.
* Upgrade the ISVs radio systems for multiple simultaneous calls, including GSM, UMTS and WLAN technology.
* ESA should work hard on improving the maneuvering thrusters to allow us to be less disruptive to the local traffic.
* ESA should think about open sourcing the design of our airlocks and the automatic docking system, this will make interfacing with existing spacecrafts and -stations easier.
* Add a warning signal light at the end of the craft that can be activated before the main engines are started.
I think most of this points should be reasonable easy to implement in the future revisions of the ISVs and missions.
Ladies and Gentlemen, ESA has finished a great mission in my opinion. Now we have to built upon it the start a new era of space exploration for all of us.”
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Thor Heyerdahl mission, captain’s debriefing:
“… as I told in my report, the Heyerdahls systems performed as well as planned. The concept of the Interplanetary Space Vehicles should allow ESA to move out into the solar system, both with unmanned and manned missions.
But there are still a few points which have to be addressed by ESA, which have more to do with the Fen out there in the solar system. During the mission the crew and me collected a large number of congratulation messages, both from single Fen we met on our way to Mars and members of the larger faction out there, like this video message here:
»The entire office staff stopped what they were doing to look out the big window at the top of the station. This was a historic event, after all.
The man in charge turned to the closest member of the administration staff - an intern who was getting some experience in space. "Minerva, take a memo, please. 'To the crew of the Thor Heyerdahl, from Sullivan Dwyer, Chief Administrator of the Artemis Foundation. Welcome to Mars and congratulations for making it here the hard way. If you have time while you're here, please stop by my office on Odyssey and I'll buy you a round of whatever your favorites are.' If you got all that, please send it off... assuming you can get a signal to them without it being swamped by everyone else's well-wishes.«
ESA must not forget that we are no longer are researchers moving out into an empty and dark solar system, everywhere we will get there will be people to meet. This has to be addressed in a number of ways, both technological and operational:
* Each crew should have basic diplomatic training and knowledge about the local Fen community. This will prevents misunderstanding on our flights.
* Each ESA crew should take some amount of money with them, this might be more important that some of the spare parts. If an ISV gets into trouble we might be able to buy the spare parts from the local Fen.
* Upgrade the ISVs radio systems for multiple simultaneous calls, including GSM, UMTS and WLAN technology.
* ESA should work hard on improving the maneuvering thrusters to allow us to be less disruptive to the local traffic.
* ESA should think about open sourcing the design of our airlocks and the automatic docking system, this will make interfacing with existing spacecrafts and -stations easier.
* Add a warning signal light at the end of the craft that can be activated before the main engines are started.
I think most of this points should be reasonable easy to implement in the future revisions of the ISVs and missions.
Ladies and Gentlemen, ESA has finished a great mission in my opinion. Now we have to built upon it the start a new era of space exploration for all of us.”