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Tag: concept art
Radar Men To Mars!
LV 1002
Early Program Development
This artist’s concept from 1962 show a three hundred-sixty ton spaceship, powered by a forty-megawatt nuclear-electric power plant, transporting a three-man crew to Mars. As envisioned by Marshall Space Flight Center engineers, a five-ship convoy would make the round trip journey in about five hundred days.
Image credit: NASA MSFC
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Deep Space Habitat
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Space Platform
Image credit: Grumman
Image source: Cradle of Aviation Museum
Lunar Rendezvous
S92-49970 (February 1992) — (Artist’s concept of possible exploration programs.( Passing from sunlight into the Earth-lit shadow of the Moon, a nuclear thermal transfer vehicle prepares to dock with a lunar lander. Using a building block approach, a Mars transfer vehicle could be constructed from components common to the lunar stage. Artwork by Pat Rawlings, of SAIC.
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Image source: National Johnson
Lunar Excursion Vehicle
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Image source: National Archives
STCAEM NTR
Image credit: Boeing
Image source: NASA NTRS
255-GRC-1964-C-71698
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Image source: National Archives
Grumman 698
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Image source: Cradle of Aviation Museum
