Convair Lunar Lander

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Image credit: Convair
Image source: SDASM Archives

Image credit: Convair
Image source: SDASM Archives

First Lunar Outpost

Image credit: NASA
Image source: NASA NTRS

Lander & Crew Return Vehicle

Image credit: United States Army
Image source: Project Horizon Reports, NASM

The HORIZON outpost as it appears in late 1965, after about six months of construction effort. The basic building block for the outpost will be cylindrical metal tanks ten feet in diameter and twenty feet in length.

Image credit: United States Army
Image source: NASM

Propellant Transfer

Conceptual view of the operations in the equatorial earth orbit. The operation in orbit is principally one of propellant transfer and it not an assembly job. The vehicle being fueled is the third stage of a SATURN II with a lunar landing and return vehicle attached. The third stage of the SATURN II was used in the combination into orbit and has thus expended its propellants. This stage is fueled into orbit by a detachment of approximately ten men after which the vehicle then proceeds on the moon.

Image credit: United States Army
Image source: NASM

Eagle 88

Image credit: NASA LRC
Image source: DVIDS

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Jupiter Lunar Landing

From one of Jupiter’s 12 moons, earth astronauts gaze on this impressive, but bleak, view of the 86,900 mile-diameter planet. More than 316 times the mass of the Earth, Jupiter is seven times further from the sun than Earth; would require voyage of one to two months to reach at velocity of one million feet per second. Max Hunter, Douglas Aircraft Company engineer predicts economically feasible trips to Jupiter will be made through development of nuclear thrust spaceship engines.

Douglas Aircraft Company, Inc. General Offices, Santa Monica, Calif.

Image credit: Douglas Aircraft Company
Image source: Numbers Station

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