Reusable NewSpace: CREW ROTATION

Crews will be rotated through their deployments similar to the military. Each person will go through four phases in their rotation:

Shore Duty

Crew has a normal day at the Spaceport

Workups

Crew gets ready for the upcoming deployment

Deployment

Crew is deployed

Shore Leave

Crew on vacation

Every rotation has two orbital deployments and one lunar deployment.

Vacation time is not needed because of the large number of Shore Leave days.

Crew on Shore Duty act as backups in case another astronaut can't deploy (because of pregnancy, for example). When the astronaut is deemed fit for duty, they will be returned to the crew rotation.

VENTURESTAR CREW

Since their schedule varies from a one–day deployment to a 9–day deployment, this Spaceliner Reentry Vehicle (RV) crew has an unusual schedule (Table 1).

SHORE DUTY	7	days
WORKUPS	1	days
LUNAR DEPLOYMENT	9	days
SHORE LEAVE	5	days
SHORE DUTY	6	days
WORKUPS	1	days
ORBITAL DEPLOYMENT	1	days
SHORE LEAVE	3	days
SHORE DUTY	8	days
WORKUPS	1	days
ORBITAL DEPLOYMENT	1	days
SHORE LEAVE	3	days

Table 1: Spaceliner Crew 46-day Rotation

The Lunar Deployment involves the Purple Shirts staying onboard the RV whist the Yellow Shirt boards the Moon Ship for 7 days.

TOURISM CREW

These Black and Yellow Shirt astronauts get to have a more consistent schedule. They will have three Half–Quarter (46–day) deployments (Table 2).

SHORE DUTY	33	days
WORKUPS	12	days
DEPLOYMENT	46	days
SHORE LEAVE	12	days
SHORE DUTY	34	days

Table 2: Space Tourism Crew 137-day Rotation

There are three rotations, called a Cycle, for the crew: two orbital deployments and one lunar deployment.

SPACE CREW

Astronauts who wear Blue, Gray, Khaki, or Green Shirts fall in this category. The have full Quarter deployments that last 91 days. Three Quarters marks a Cycle (Table 3).

SHORE DUTY	68	days
WORKUPS	23	days
DEPLOYMENT	91	days
SHORE LEAVE	23	days
SHORE DUTY	69	days

Table 3: Space Crew 274-day Rotation

All Ensigns and Lieutenants have duty rotations within their deployment.

Cleaning Duty
Station Duty
Outpost Duty
Expeditionary Duty

Only Ensigns clean the stations (Table 3.1).

CLEANING DUTY	30	days
STATION DUTY	31	days
OUTPOST DUTY	30	days

Table 3.1: Ensign 91-day Deployment Duties

They swap Cleaning Duty with Expeditionary Duty when promoted to Lieutenant (Table 3.2).

EXPEDITIONARY DUTY	30	days
STATION DUTY	31	days
OUTPOST DUTY	30	days

Table 3.2: Lieutenant 91-day Deployment Duties

All orbital and lunar crews will have identical schedules (Table 4):

	START	END	DURATION
WAKEUP	04:45
MORNING ROUTINE	04:45	06:30	1:45
BREAKFAST	06:30	07:00	0:30
ON DUTY	07:00
ON DUTY PERIOD	07:00	12:00	5:00
LUNCH	12:00	12:30	0:30
ON DUTY PERIOD	12:30	19:00	6:30
OFF DUTY	19:00
DINNER	19:00	19:30	0:30
OFF DUTY PERIOD	19:30	22:45	3:15
SLEEP	22:45
SLEEP PERIOD	22:45	04:45	6:00

Table 4: Flight Crew Daily Routine

We will allow the crew to work as an astronaut for 40 years. Eighteen cycles, at 2.25 months each, is 40.5 years.

We will accept applications when three criteria have been met:

Bachelor Degree
Military Flyer
30–years of age

We may have to provide exceptions to point #2 for Purple and Khaki Shirts.

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