Packing the Earth Module

Withing a few days the Earth Module will be launched from the driveway.  Once in space or on the interstate the Kadizzles will have to survive with only the supplies packed on the module.  The module must be self sustaining. With solar panels, a generator, gasoline, water, propane, and so on the module should be able to survive in space for up to ten days.  However, there are always those little things, like the proper charger, the right battery, or some little gizmo that is essential.  Now that gets us to huge long checklist. Here is where the problem starts. To get into orbit the Earth Module can only hold so much.  The reality is the more the Earth module weighs the less the brakes can hold back. So down the road you go pulling over 7,000 lbs of junk. You put on the brakes and hope the Earth Module does not come through the back window of the pickup truck.  Then next spring comes and you return to planet Hazen.  Suddenly you realize how much too much crap you took that you never needed.  You just cannot win.  Do you want to be in the middle of the desert saying " Gee I wish I had the dodad"  or do you want to be going down a hill from Flagstaff realizing you are now on a coaster with no brakes?   So the stuff keeps going into the module.  We carry a spare tire for the module.  We have never used it and it must weigh about 70lbs.  Could we live without it?  Should we carry the propane tanks full on the way to nirvana?  On it goes.  In a week you can read the results here.