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LLV by Ron Simpson

Eagle Has Landed
Don Dwiggins
Golden Gate, 1970

Lunar Logistics Spacecraft at Astronautix

Image credit: Douglas

Image source: Numbers Station

Lander & Crew Return Vehicle

Project Horizon at Astronautix

Image credit: US Army

Image source: Project Horizon Reports, NASM

Space Tug Gallery

Space Tug at Astronautix

Image credit: NASA MSFC

Image source: NASA NTRS

MSFC-70-PD-4018A

Space Tug at Astronautix

Image credit: NASA MSFC

Image source: NASA NTRS

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

Horizon

Scientists differ on whether sites should be underground in a lunar crater or “ocean” or if they should be blasted out of the sides of mountains.

The Next Fifty Years On The Moon
by Erik Bergaust
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1974

Project Horizon at Astronautix

Image credit: US Army

Image source: Numbers Station

First-Stage Lunar Base

First-stage lunar base. This is the type of shelter proposed for the construction crew responsible for building permanent quarters.

The Next Fifty Years On The Moon
by Erik Bergaust
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1974

LESA at Astronautix

Image credit: Boeing

Image source: Numbers Station

Lunar Logistics Vehicle

Missiles and Rockets, Nov 26, 1962

Lunar Logistics Spacecraft at Astronautix

Image credit: Douglas

Image source: Internet Archive

C-1959-50258

ARTIST’S CONCEPTION OF A SCIENTIFIC BASE ON THE MOON AND A DIFFUSE NEBULA IN THE CONSTELLATION CASSIOPEIA

Image credit: NASA LRC

Image source: DVIDS