The Mars All Reusable Excursion Suit (MARES) (Big image warning!)

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So, who here is a fan of learning about space exploration?

 

^credit

 

For the past few months, I've been talking with some other engineering students and we've been designing a Mars-use spacesuit. I started the endeavor working on a setting for a big future fanfic project of mine. Anyways, I LOVE space exploration and designing things, and ponies (especially Twilight Sparkle), so using my freaky knowledge of aerospace engineering and ponies, I made this.

 

Copypasta from the Deviantart description:

 

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Whelp, I've been working on this for a very, very, very long time.

 

It explains what it is.

 

It's for my Marspony tumblr, and the setting of a big fanfic project I'm starting on.

 

The setting is a few decades after the end of season 3. Several subsidized companies have began colonization efforts on Mars. A pony pays for a ticket, and gets to go to Mars on a 2+ year trip. Thousands have gone already, and many have stayed.

 

Want to go to Mars? The ticket's about the equivalent of ~$300,000 USD. It's definitely not cheap, but not impossible for mid-upper class ponies, either! But for safety, you have to take a series of courses and some training with the crew you'll fly out with. That's what this is!

 

See how it mentions things like: "see 'Water Cycle'"? Those things will be illustrated (Cycles, Using the DCM, and Procedures, respectively) in parts 2, 3, and 4. Plans may change though. Maybe I'l even add a "Review Quiz" for part 5. This is, after all, an instructional guide  I'm basing the course largely off of what SCUBA divers train in (I'm a certified SCUBA diver!  ).

 

Anyways, so it's technically a WIP. Please go ahead and mention any issues you find with it!

 

Please comment below! 

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Edit!

 

Whoops. Been working on it so long I forgot I was using someone else's vector! 

 

 

Credit: http://baumkuchenpony.deviantart.com/art/Twilight-Sparkle-is-ready-for-action-313148101 He's marked it as "you may use as long as credited"

Edited June 5, 2013 by Mattlight