Good source for NASA equipment?

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by PTTG

Suppose that NASA has an effectively unlimited budget as of June 21st 1969. We're talking war mobilization levels. Berlin Airlift to the moon. To take the best advantage of this resource, all you need to do is have people living on the moon, and the more the better.

What's the TL ~15 years later?

It would be hard to beat the funding in place in 1969. It would be alck of cuts that was the change.

Anyway, if it's 1984 the TL is 8. Changing TL progression requires a lot more than just building more of the stuff you already have. Fiat Science! doesn't work all that much better than fiat economics.

You may not have anyone living on the Moon either. To deliver more than a Lunar Module to the Moon you need more than a Saturn 5. Even using a NERVA for an upper stage (which might double the Delta-V of the third stage) wouldn't help that much with the lower stages.

It would really work a lot better to take the magic to go to the Moon rather than going to the Moon to get the magic. High Mana isn't worth all that much more than normal Mana anyway. It's nice as an environment for recharging powerstones and using self-powered Items but it doesn't look like gold rush stuff to me.