Project Horizon at Astronautix
Image credit: US Army
Image source: Project Horizon Reports, NASM
Lander & Crew Return Vehicle
Tag: Lunar Outpost
Outpost Facilities
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.
Project Horizon at Astronautix
Image credit: US Army
Image source: Project Horizon Reports, 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.
Project Horizon at Astronautix
Image credit: United States Army
Image source: Project Horizon Reports, NASM
Sentovic Lander
Eagle Book of Rockets and Space
by John W.R. Taylor and Maurice Allward
Longacre Press, 1961
Image credit: Convair
Image source: Numbers Station
First Lunar Outpost
Convair Lunar Lander
By Jove!
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
Solar-powered Ship
This glorious painting by John Sentovic depicts a solar-powered ship in lunar orbit, as envisioned by Krafft A. Ehricke.
Krafft Ehricke’s Plastic Ship at Atomic Rockets
Image credit: Convair
Image source: SDASM Archives
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