Description
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Spaceship Endurance interstellar space exploration vehicle
Crew
Mission Commander: Brand
Mission Pilot: Cooper
Science Specialists
Romilly
Doyle
Support Robots
TARS
CASE
Technical Specs
Diameter:65 meters
Power:
Supply4 Tokamak fusion reactors, Solar cells, Fuel cells
Drive Type: Hybrid Variable-impulse Chemical/Plasma Engines (12)
Crew
Systems Long-term Habitat Module
Air / Water Recycling
Cryogenic Hibernation Pods
Artificial Gravity (via Rotation)
Velocity: Low Earth Orbit (LEO)8 km/s
Velocity: Earth to Mars12.5 km/s
Velocity: Mars to Saturn35 km/s
Velocity: Wormhole approach 325 m/s
Velocity: Gargantua system (outside timeshift)400 km/s
Velocity: Low Mann orbit (LMO)6,5 km/s
Velocity: Gargantua powered slingshot100,000 km/s
Velocity : Orbit Gargantua - Falling into Gargantua20,000 km/s(Orbit ) - 3,000 km/s(Fall)
The Endurance is the interplanetary spacecraft built by NASA as part of Project Endurance. It is the ship that carries Cooper, Brand, Doyle, Romilly, CASE, and TARS on their voyage through the wormhole to a system located in another galaxy near the black hole Gargantua. The primary goal of the Endurance is to find, rescue, and resupply the few marooned scientists of the previous Lazarus Missions in addition to establishing a permanent colony on a suitable planet that could sustain human life.
The Endurance is the product of a much-earlier NASA project to produce a viable, long-range, high-efficiency, interplanetary spaceship. It was designed to be self-sufficient for several decades, enabling it to prolong crew life for a protracted mission period. After the arrival of the blight, public opinion would no longer support any funding for space exploration, and NASA was moved into the underground NORAD facility in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The agency continued its work in secret for over a decade. NORAD's extensive underground facilities and launch systems - originally meant for nuclear weapons - were ideal for housing a secret space program aimed at saving mankind. Thus, work on the Endurance continued in secrecy.