The Mechanical Engineer in me just needs to point out that G's are only an issue during the acceleration part of the journey. Once speed has been reached you are just going fast not accelerating. Now the article did not go into any specifics, I mean it could be accelerating all the way to the Moon. Since we have never gone that fast before, what effects on the human body will the speed have? Of course the same was said when we went into orbit the first time, when we went to the Moon the first time because we humans had never traveled that fast before. All interesting questions. The most interesting would be the re-usability of the system. Today we dump a lot of equipment into the ocean just to get something into orbit. Wouldn't it be nice to put something like this on the end of a shuttle type ship and launch and retrieve the same package all intact? The cost of a shuttle type launch would drop dramatically.
Mike
