2 Cards on @RogerBW landing
2 Cards on @RossM Juno
2 cards on @yashima landing
2 cards on @pillbox soyez and saturn
2 Likes
Ok. Drop Lunar sample to Earth.
Claim
$10 for everyone.
I assume I get my $25 for rare lunar samples now?
1 Like
This got errata-ed because it was an infinite money machine (you could take your $25, build rockets to collect more samples…) so it’s now given at the start of the next year. v4n rulebook p. 28 under Start of Year in the Condensed Rules, p. 31 under Minerals.
1 Like
Yep, I was reading what Joe had been discussing on Bgg. So is the mission completed this year?
My understanding is that the mission is completed now and we get the bonus cash now, but the minerals aren’t sold until start of next year.
1 Like
That’s my interpretation too.
Okay!
Buy 2 Soyez £16
1 Atlas £5
4 Juno’s £4
Launch in a 2 stage Soyez 2 Ions and 5 Juno’s.
Rendezvous everything in orbit into a big lump and then…
Separate 3 Juno’s and leave in earth orbit.
Collect 1 ion and two Juno’s together and fire the ion towards lunar orbit (2 time tokens)
Collect three ions, one Juno and probe together and fire Ions to reach inner planet transfer (1 time token)
End of turn.
With ¤35 (+1 back from yashima):
- Buy 2 Saturn @ 15 = 30, 6 left
- Buy 1 Atlas @ 5 = 5, 1 left
- Buy 1 Juno @ 1 = 1, 0 left
End turn.
1 Like
@yashima with their $34
1 Like
Plans plans plans.
Shopping
Here is ISAS 
shopping list for the year:
- 2 x Soyuz for $16
- 1 x Atlas for $5
- 1 x Ion Thruster for $10
- 3 x Juno for $3
= $34 (if I counted right)
Rocketeering
Assmble the rocket “Trophy Hunter” (another WT song) with 2 Soyuz stages for a total of 7 PL to LEO
Payload: Atlas (4), Ion Thruster (1) and 2xJuno Rockets (2)
Launch “Trophy Hunter” to LEO and dock the payload with the mess that is already up there.
Do Space Stuff
Now from the LEO-mess I will build a new craft called: “Why not me”
from the following components:
- 1 Ion Thruster
- 2 Atlas Rockets
- 2 Juno Rockets
- 1 Probe
Stage 1: 1 Atlas Rocket (assisted by Ion Thruster)
Stage 2: 1 Atlas Rocket to get to Mars Orbit
Stage 3: 1 Juno to land on Phobos and take a sample
Stage 4: 1 Juno to start from Phobos
Stage 5: Coast back to LEO on the Ion Thruster with a PL of 2 (probe and sample)
That makes the payload: 1 Atlas (4), 2 Juno (2), 1 Probe (1) for a total payload weight of 7
Fire Stage 1 of “Why not me” from LEO to Mars-Fly-by. This step takes three years at a difficulty of 3–together the Atlas and the Ion Thruster should provide the necessary thrust. (I am using the Max Payload Mass tables to calculate this)
I was going to send some scouting mission ahead but that one is too much of a risk. So next year.
I think that is it for my turn this year unless some money crawls out from under a rock.
I’m not sure I follow the maths here Yashima. Why not me? Weighs 12. You need 36 Thrust to reach Mars Flyby.
1 Like
So the Atlas as 27 Thrust and the Ion Thruster generates 5 Thrust per Time Token of which there are three = 27 + 15 = 42
I was actually just going by the tables which say that at difficulty 3 the Atlas can provide 5 Payload and the Ion Thruster over 3 Years can provide 2 1/3 which makes it just above the 7 needed.
1 Like
@pillbox is up
2 Likes
Forgot to mention, with $35
1 Like
(sorry for the delay, turn incoming soon)
2 Likes
Literally we are all living in the biggest delay ever, so don’t worry.
2 Likes
(finally got back to my desk and found my notes)
Purchase:
- 2x Saturn Rocket ($30)
- 1x Atlas Rocket($5)
That concludes 1966 for 
NASA
2 Likes
- Buy 1 Juno @ 1 leaving 24
- Buy 1 Probe @ 2 leaving 22
- Launch Probe on 3 Juno to Sub-Orbital; test Landing, buying off any outcome.
Let’s see what happens there, then I’ll decide what to do next.
Minor failure, probe damaged