Image credit: National Geographic
A 1970 Space Station
Tag: art concept
NASA-S-72-1139-X
Image credit: NAR / NASA MSFC
Image source: Numbers Station
Ithacus B&W Plates
Modularized Space Station
Image credit: NAR / NASA MSFC
Image source: Numbers Station
S66-17592
Image credit: NASA
Image source: Internet Archive
S-69-60223
Image credit: North American Rockwell
Images: NASA, Mike Acs
Inside Deimos
ROMBUS
Configuration for a manned Mars mission (Project Deimos).
- Six man Mars landing capsule;
- Pressurized tunnel;
- Toroidal living compartment;
- Liquid hydrogen tanks (8);
- Spherical liquid oxygen tank
- Booster centerbody.
Project Deimos – Mars Landing Module
- Earth-return capsule;
- Command centre and pressurized tunnel;
- Separation joint, for return to Mars orbit;
- Mars landing propellant tanks(6);
- Ground access hatch;
- Mars-launch platform;
- Payload and power supply equipment compartment;
- Mars-launch propellant tank;
- Landing and take-off rocket motor;
- Jettisonable closure panel;
- Mars-entry heat shield;
- Extensible landing gear(4);
- Altitude-control system quads (4).
Frontiers of Space
Philip Bono & Kenneth Gatland
Macmillan, 1969
Image credit: Douglas
Image source: Numbers Station
Deimos Storyboard
Mission to Mars (Project Deimos)
- Hydrogen tanks jettison as ROMBUS spaceship accelerates from Earth-orbit;
- Two hydrogen tanks jettison after retro-thrust into Mars orbit. Mars Landing Module separates from ROMBUS parent above the cratered deserts;
- After soft-landing, astronauts begin exploration setting out research equipment and taking meteorological soundings;
- Ascent stage of Mars Landing Module returns astronauts to ROMBUS parent in Martian orbit for return to Earth.
Frontiers of Space
Philip Bono & Kenneth Gatland
Macmillan, 1969
Image credit: Douglas
Image source: SDASM Archives
Concept by Henry Lozano Jr.
Image credit: North American Rockwell
Image source: Numbers Station
NAR Artist Concept
Image credit: North American Rockwell
Image source: Numbers Station
619 by Craig Kavafes
Image credit: Grumman
Design 532
Image credit: Grumman
File source: NASA NTRS
