How to put an elephant (or 763 pachyderms) into space

[Ombligo]

Sometimes you need a way to put things in perspective

[neophyte]

I read somewhere that the first stage flight of the Saturn V was the most expensive 40-odd miles (in terms of fuel) ever traveled by humans.

Hope you have an ordinary day, Ombligo.

[Article Accelerator]

And then there's this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Colonial_Transporter

27,000,000 lbf of initial thrust…no idea of how many elephants of fuel that entails.

[Paul F.]

To put something else in perspective; the Saturn V used liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen as propellants, the exhaust oh which was: Water.

[GGD]

Paul F. wrote:
To put something else in perspective; the Saturn V used liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen as propellants, the exhaust oh which was: Water.

And if you remove the water from the elephants, you can carry a lot more of them.

[vitus]

Paul F. wrote:
To put something else in perspective; the Saturn V used liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen as propellants, the exhaust oh which was: Water.

Stage 1 used RP-1 and LOX

[Racer X]

GGD wrote:
[quote=Paul F.]
To put something else in perspective; the Saturn V used liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen as propellants, the exhaust oh which was: Water.

And if you remove the water from the elephants, you can carry a lot more of them.
That's a lot of jerky.......

[MGS_forgot_password]

I think one of the START treaties prohibited the Titan 2 from having MIREs.

(Multiple Independent Reentry Elephants)

[Racer X]

That was passed after the Strategic Aardvark Limitation Treaty, right?