how can I transport goods to space colony,...heavy goods
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NASA appropriated the name for its Space Shuttle Program, the only component of the proposal to survive Congressional funding approval). ... A chemically fueled space tug to move crew and equipment between Earth orbits as high as geosynchronous orbit, which could be adapted as a lunar orbit-to-surface shuttle.
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Transportation System
If we are used to the ever increasing dependence on transport for our terrestrial endeavors, the colonists will find it even more crucial, for it will become the only physical link between a far off , isolated world in outer space and its home planet, the Earth.
Designing a cost efficient transportation system will not only provide a good technical solution but being able to supply eventual dwellers with frequent schedules of incoming and outgoing flights to and from the Earth will help to dispel their fears. If some day passenger flights become as commonplace and reliable as today's airline schedules the colonists will be less afraid of the remote isolation of their dwelling.
Transport Requirements
Transport requirements will be diverse and complex. It must be clearly distinguished that during the construction and development phase demand for transportation will be radically different from the requirements that will have to be met on a day to day basis when the colony is running.
Explanation:
The Space Transportation System (STS), also known internally to NASA as the Integrated Program Plan (IPP),[1] was a proposed system of reusable manned space vehicles envisioned in 1969 to support extended operations beyond the Apollo program. (NASA appropriated the name for its Space Shuttle Program, the only component of the proposal to survive Congressional funding approval). The purpose of the system was twofold: to reduce the cost of spaceflight by replacing the current method of launching capsules on expendable rockets with reusable spacecraft; and to support ambitious follow-on programs including permanent orbiting space stations around the Earth and Moon, and a human landing mission to Mars.
In February 1969, President Richard Nixon appointed a Space Task Group headed by Vice President Spiro Agnew to recommend human space projects beyond Apollo. The group responded in September with the outline of the STS, and three different program levels of effort culminating with a human Mars landing by 1983 at the earliest, and by the end of the twentieth century at the latest. The system's major components consisted of:
A permanent space station module designed for 6 to 12 occupants, in a 270-nautical-mile (500 km) low Earth orbit, and as a permanent lunar orbit station. Modules could be combined in Earth orbit to create a 50 to 100 person permanent station.
A chemically fueled Earth-to-station shuttle.
A chemically fueled space tug to move crew and equipment between Earth orbits as high as geosynchronous orbit, which could be adapted as a lunar orbit-to-surface shuttle.
A nuclear-powered ferry using the NERVA engine, to move crew, spacecraft and supplies between low Earth orbit and lunar orbit, geosynchronous orbit, or to other planets in the solar system