[Spaceships] Pilgrim Observer and small craft

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Pilgrim Observer (TL7/8)

Pilgrim I, the first United States manned deep-space vehicle, will be launched into near-Earth orbit on Wednesday, March 21, 1979 to inaugurate this nation's manned planetary exploration program. -- NASA Press Office

This is a loose adaptation of
this model , a TL7/8 alternate historical spaceship. Lifted into orbit by a Saturn V booster, the ship has a three spoked centrifuge with cabins, a hydroponic garden and life support, and a Space Nuclear Applications Program reactor. The large hub contains lab space, scientific sensors, and the command deck. Aft are fuel tanks, three J-2 rockets and at the end of a long spar, a NERVA-B nuclear thermal rocket.

The Pilgrim Observer can reach the moon and near-earth asteroids. Equipped with boosters and drop tanks can perform missions of ups to 21 mps of delta-v. As show here, this could be an "upper stage" ready for a return transfer to Earth from Mars.

The ship carried two small craft below the scale of GURPS Spaceships. The Apollo-M is a modified Apollo Command and Service Module that can carry the 10 man crew to and from the ship, and serve as a short-range excursion vehicle. The OMEVAC is a One-Man EVA Capsule, a two-armed work pod.

Systems Table

Front Hull

[1] Armor, Light Alloy (dDR7)
[2-3] Habitat (2 Bunkrooms, 1 Cabin, 1Sickbay, 1 MicroFac, 1 Briefing Room, 2 Lab, 2 steerage cargo)
[4] Power Plant, Reactor (one power point)
[5] Open Space (one garden)
[6] Science Array (array level 6)
[core] Control Room (computer complexity 2, comm/sensor 4, stations 4)

Central Hull
[1-6, core] Fuel Tank (50 tons Hydrogen or LOX/Hydrogen, .21 mps chemical, . 0.42 mps fission)

Rear Hull
[1-4] Fuel Tank (50 tons Hydrogen or LOX/Hydrogen, .21 mps chemical, . 0.42 mps fission)
[5] Reaction Engine, Chemical (3G)
[6] Reaction Engine, Fission (01.G)

Spacecraft Table

PILOTING TL7 (LOW-PERFORMANCE SPACECRAFT, HIGH-PERFORMANCE SPACECRAFT)

TL 	Spacecraft 		dST/HP 	Hnd/SR 	HT 	Move 
7/8	Pilgrim Observer	70/70		-3/4		12	.1G/4.2 mps
						-2/4			3g/2.3 mps

 LWt. 		Load 		SM 	Occ 	dDR 	Range 	Cost 
1000 tons	7 tons		+8	10	7			37.9M

Notes: TL7 except for required TL8 components. The model shows the vehicle just after launch. This version adds permanent fuel tanks after orbital assembly. The Open Space is for a long-duration life support system (p. 19). Control Room and Science Array calculated as TL7. The ship has two performance stats, one for nuclear fission drive, one for chemical rocket.


Apollo-M Spacecraft Table

PILOTING TL7 (HIGH-PERFORMANCE SPACECRAFT)

TL	Spacecraft	dST/HP	Hnd/SR	HT	Move
7/8	Apollo-M	15/15		-2/4		12	3G/0.8 mps

LWt	Load		SM	Occ	dDR	Cost
10	5		+4	10	1	1M

OMEVAC Spacecraft Table

PILOTING TL7 (LOW-PERFORMANCE SPACECRAFT)

TL	Spacecraft	dST/HP	Hnd/SR	HT	Move
7/8	OMEVAC	2/2		-3/4		12	O.1G/0.1 mps

LWt	Load	SM	Occ	DR	Cost
0.5 ton	.1 ton	+0	1	4      100K