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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
We could use the finest 1919 technology from that movie from the earth to the moon, and build a large style hypervelocity (based on the advanced naval gun program) cannon to shoot components into orbit for the station to pick up. Plus putting astronaugts in a cannon would be awesome.
Sorry to derail the thread.
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Acceleration is your key issue. to get to the moon you only have 1 goal ~40,000 KPH everything else is the details of how you get there.
With Spin, Slingshot or Railgun style launch systems... you need to hit that speed by the time you leave the launch apparatus. Chemical rockets give you the ability to take an hour+ to hit that speed. One acceleration rate is going to be a thrill ride, and the other would crush you to death against the weight of the seat pushing you upwards.
Any successful launch system is going to continue accelerating after it leaves the launch pad, (a 100 KM long launch system might violate that logic, but then you're just on a space elevator).