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Ferry Rocket Vehicle

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Image credit: Goodyear Aerospace
Image source: AFMC 

Hawker Siddeley Moonbase

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A landing area in the south-western corner of the great Mare Imbrium is suggested for the first expedition because of the wealth of interesting places to explore in that vicinity, the reasonable surface temperature and a surface less rough than that of the southern hemisphere.

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Back-Pack suggested for use by Moon explorers. Main items include an oxygen container (1) heated by an electric jacket (2), a battery pack (10), a perspiration trap (12) and a ventilation system for the space suit, with coolant gas entry and exit at 16 and 17.

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The whole party would return to Earth in the capsules used to land on the Moon. These would employ a similar re-entry technique to that used by the Dyna-Soar winged orbital vehicle.

Eagle Book of Rockets and Space
by John W.R. Taylor and Maurice Allward
Longacre Press, 1961

Image credit: Hawker Siddeley
Image source: Numbers Station

M.A.R.S.

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GENERAL DYNAMICS / ASTRONAUTICS artist’s conception of a three-man Manned Astronautical Research Station (MARS) in operation 200 miles above earth. The station in orbit would be linked to a spent Centaur vehicle. The two bodies would rotate about each other, the resulting centrifugal force providing the necessary artificial gravity.

Missiles and Rockets, Feb 10, 1964

Image credit: General Dynamics
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Manned Orbiting Space Vehicle

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Orbiting Stations: Stopovers to Space Travel
Irwin Stambler
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1965

Image credit: McDonnell
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Lockheed Space Taxi

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Image credit: Lockheed
Image source: AFMC 

Cover Art

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Orbiting Stations: Stopovers to Space Travel
Irwin Stambler
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1965

Image credit: Martin Marietta
Image source: Numbers Station

Leynnwood Gallery

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Image credit: Northrop
Images: Numbers Station

Assembling Spaceball

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Huge space ferries are used by astronauts to perform the final assembly of the huge Spaceball orbiting station.

Orbiting Stations: Stopovers to Space Travel
Irwin Stambler
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1965

Image credit: Douglas
Image source: Numbers Station

LM Derived Vehicles

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  1. LM
  2. Extended LM
  3. Lunar Reconnaissance Module
  4. LM Taxi
  5. LM Truck
  6. LM Payload Module
  7. LM Shelter
  8. Lunar Base Module
  9. LM/Stellar ATM
  10. Rescue LM

Image credit: Grumman
Image source: NASA HQ

Origin of The SST

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  1. Lockheed’s L-2000 SST design, loser in the competition with Boeing for US/SST contract, was result of decade of tunnel testing, incorporating best features of fixed wing double-delta concept proved out in SR-71. Lockheed’s philosophy was simplicity in design for better safety and economy.
  2. How to build an SST! Brilliant Lockheed designer Clarence L. (Kelly) Johnson, who created such successful planes as the U-2, SR-71, F-104 and the Constellation, amused fellow aircrafters with satirical drawing portraying design problems encountered with the SST.

The SST: Here it comes, ready or not
by Don Dwiggins
Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1968

Image credit: Lockheed
Image source: Numbers Station