RingSight91's video: BBC Space Odyssey 2004 - Making of 3 of 4 - Building Pegasus

Space Odyssey - Voyage To The Planets http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/spaceodyssey/ From the Press Kit (Unit Equivalents are my additions) Spacecraft: The facts Pegasus: the mothership - Length: 1.3 km (0.81 mi.) - Weight: just over 400 tonnes (441 s.tons) - Aeroshield is constructed from steel, carbon fibre and beryllium - Powered by a mighty nuclear fusion reactor with a core temperature of 100,000,000 degrees Celsius (180,000,032 ºF) that explosively vaporises the chilled liquid hydrogen propellant - Can withstand temperatures of over 5,000 ºC (9032 ºF) - The main engine can generate over 158 million horsepower (117.821 MW) for acceleration - Top engine speed of 288,000 km/h (178,955 mph), although Pegasus is designed to withstand speeds of 1,000,000 km/h (621,371 mph) to which it's hurled as it passes the Sun - Has the same internal space as 10 jumbo jets - Carries 57 tonnes (63 s.tons) of food, 80 tonnes (88 s.tons) of Oxygen - During the 2,246 days of the mission, it will travel 8.3 billion miles (13.4 terameters) - Pegasus is named after the winged horse from Greek mythology and the constellation where extra-solar planets were first discovered