Zeta Tucanae Exploration Mission, mid-November 2015 to ($return >= March 2016)
The members of this exploration team have been carefully chosen by the Artemis Foundation with an eye toward ensuring they won't be at each others' throats midway through the mission. With a minimum of three months away from Sol (one month to get there, at least one month exploring, one month to return), the crew needs to be able to get along with each other.
Calypso
(Shuttle-class, flagship) This is the first mission for Calypso, not counting her shakedown cruise in early-November 2015. Her cargo bay has been loaded with a large optical telescope and a number of non-AI probes and communication relays - of these, they are expecting to bring back only the telescope.
Crew:
Takumi F.
(Roadrunner-class, supply ship) Takumi F. usually runs produce from Wonderland to Genaros and "previously-enjoyed produce" back to Wonderland; this is the ship's first long-term mission. Six of the ship's eight cargo containers are filled with non-perishable foods; one is a vehicle bay holding a waved Ford pickup truck, basic mechanic's tools, and some spare parts; the other container has been outfitted as a recreation room, with a collar and tube for Calypso to dock.
Crew:
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
The members of this exploration team have been carefully chosen by the Artemis Foundation with an eye toward ensuring they won't be at each others' throats midway through the mission. With a minimum of three months away from Sol (one month to get there, at least one month exploring, one month to return), the crew needs to be able to get along with each other.
Calypso
(Shuttle-class, flagship) This is the first mission for Calypso, not counting her shakedown cruise in early-November 2015. Her cargo bay has been loaded with a large optical telescope and a number of non-AI probes and communication relays - of these, they are expecting to bring back only the telescope.
Crew:
- Commander: Ulick Halvarsen (male Icelander, generalist-Fendane, has a PhD in astrophysics)
- Pilot: Bardo MacInnis (male Australian - mixed Aboriginal and Scottish ancestry, Long Heinleinian)
- Engineer: Anjelo Garcia (male Spanish-American, Pulper)
- Astronomer: Miyuri Akisato (AI, female Japanese, generalist-Fendane, seconded from Stellvia)
- Physicist: Destinee LaCroux (Frenchwoman, has a graduate degree in geophysics from the Pierre and Marie Curie University, Long Heinleinian, dating Bardo MacInnis)
- Cartographer: Herrick Feingold (male German, Belter)
- Medic: Rhiannon MacKenzie (Scotswoman, generalist-Fendane, seconded from Stellvia)
- Autonomous Survey Scouts: Larry, Moe, and Curly (AIs, augmented Clay Pigeons, Supers)
Takumi F.
(Roadrunner-class, supply ship) Takumi F. usually runs produce from Wonderland to Genaros and "previously-enjoyed produce" back to Wonderland; this is the ship's first long-term mission. Six of the ship's eight cargo containers are filled with non-perishable foods; one is a vehicle bay holding a waved Ford pickup truck, basic mechanic's tools, and some spare parts; the other container has been outfitted as a recreation room, with a collar and tube for Calypso to dock.
Crew:
- Captain: Carlton Waggoner (male German, generalist)
- Helmsman/Navigator: Ella Jaros (female Polish-American, Belter)
- Engineer: Warren Tipton (Englishman, generalist-Fendane)
- Cargomaster: Vander Rycenga (male Netherlander, generalist)
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012