Project Mercury at Astronautix
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Tag: cutaway
532 Flyback Booster
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
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Pegasus Cutaway & Plan
Pegasus Intercontinental Passenger Rocket
- Forward pressure dome;
- Two-man crew compartment;
- Re-entry stabilization fines (2);
- Cargo compartment;
- Aft pressure dome;
- Pressurized cabin for passengers (170);
- Deck structure (4) with passenger couches (43 each).
Pegasus during atmospheric re-entry uses the LH2-cooled plug nozzle as a heat shield. The ballistic transport would convey 172 passengers and freight 7,456 miles (12,000 km.) in 39 min. without exceeding an acceleration of 3g during ascent or re-entry. At the arrival spaceport it would hover on rocket thrust during a soft landing in the vertical attitude.
Pegasus Passenger Compartment
- Four-level passenger access doors (3);
- Stairways (2) connecting four passenger decks;
- Double-wall acoustic damping structure;
- Luggage racks (9);
- Re-entry stabilization fins (2).
Frontiers of Space
Philip Bono & Kenneth Gatland
Macmillan, 1969
Image credit: Douglas / Blandford Press
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