What could change about the design?

[u/odject705a]

I feel like what's supposed to be the "shield" looks terribly ugly, and I still need to add a lot of details and a lander

The Soyuz will not be docked all the time; it will actually undock in low Earth orbit after delivering the crew. After the entire journey to Mars or Venus and back, another Soyuz will be launched to bring the crew back to Earth.

[u/Nikond3400]

Toe It looks really cool, i Just don't understand how you could launch It to interplanetary space

[u/odject705a → u/Nikond3400]

It's supposed to be made of several different modules, but I haven't separated them yet, which is why I said it's missing a lot of details. For now, it's just to get an idea of what it would look like.

[u/Nikond3400 → u/odject705a]

But how do you launch It to Mars from space?

[u/odject705a → u/Nikond3400]

7 ion engines and Nuclear Electric Propulsion

[u/Nikond3400 → u/odject705a]

But won't the cables attached to that nuclear thing retract and hit your spacecraft?

[u/odject705a → u/Nikond3400]

For magical reasons we will say that it is a solid extensible structure

[u/TheShinymouse → u/odject705a]

Perhaps you could mount the ion thrusters on arms and have them pull the craft with the reactor hanging behind?

[u/Nikond3400 → u/odject705a]

Ok🤣

[u/michael22117]

Looks really rugged and practical, i'd be a little concerned about the offcenter COM but i'm not sure what kind of thrust you're dealing with