AsteroidMiningCrewTransport

A nuclear fusion mining transport from a 1981 Boeing report commissioned by NASA (the artwork from the report is in the lower left corner.
Details can be found here:
www.projectrho.com/public_html…

The nose of the spacecraft is in the upper left corner with the tanks on girders. The tail of the ship is at the lower right corner with the engine.

It has a delta V of 51 kilometers per second, and can deliver 1250 miners with 150 metric tons of cargo to Ceres asteroid base in 250 days flat.

The triangular things are huge heat radiators because the engine has to get rid of 2.8 Gigawatts of waste heat.

The heat radiators are triangular, so that they can stay inside the shadow cast by the anti-radiation shadow shield. This is for three reasons:

1. parts of the radiator extending out of the shadow could scatter deadly radiation onto the passengers
2. parts of the radiator extending out of the shadow will suffer neutron activation
3. parts of the radiator extending out of the shadow will suffer neutron embrittlement.