Titan CV Crew Stations Entry Profile View This is an on-going series. See Mars terraforming image links below. This image is the completion to the sub-set of images dealing with crew descent & entry accommodations aboard the Titan crew vehicle, the other images in this subset are: Titan Crew Vehicle Flight Control Station Titan CV Flight Control Entry Profile View and Titan CV Crew Ascent/Descent /Entry Stations The Titan crew landing craft is spherical in design with the entry-heat-shield opposite the landing & take-off thrusters – the vehicle performs (one) 180 degree roll after aero-breaking. This means the direction of gravity (in the form of deceleration during atmospheric braking) will shift 180 degrees relative to the direction of gravity induced by the landing/take-off thrust (or indeed relative to the force of gravity on Titan’s surface). Geirla had commented (on one of my previous images) about designs incorporating “crew compartment’s in a ball-bearing-like sphere. That way, either by weighting it heavier at the "bottom" or by active means such as gears or tracks, you can orient it to match the acceleration direction no matter where it is.” This is the final image in the sub-set showing the compartment at rotation during aero-braking. The Titan resource recovery operation vehicles carry a crew of fifty. Flight consists of two crew (manning the flight control station) and three crew in the Reactor Systems GCNTR Control Station – leaving 45 crew who need be accommodated through entry but who do not require access to a flight or primary-system work/control station). The crew are accommodated in four 10 man acceleration/deceleration stations and one 5 man station (Note: I’ve left the fifth crew-chair out of this image due to the heavy polygon count generated by poser objects imported into Bryce). The compartments are cylindrical and roll on their long axis – and are aligned so the 90 arc of rotation follows the roll of the spacecraft through the 180 degree transition from atmospheric braking to powered descent. I’ve used Davo’s Modular Command Chair as the basic component of the system -- exported as a Wavefront object -- and mounted these in bench fashion along one wall of the compartment. The entire compartment will roll through the 90 degree transition required. This entire set (except for Davo’s Modular Command Chair) was constructed in Bryce 6.5, and rendered in Bryce 7 Pro. Figures are DAZ M4 and DAZ V4 exported into Bryce. As always thank you for your interest, thoughtful comments, and encouragement.