Ford Mars Lander at Astronautics
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Tag: Mars Excursion Module
If It’s Not Boeing, I’m Not Going
Mars Expedition 1969 at Astronautix
Image credit: NASA Lewis
Image source: National Archives
Mars Excursion Module
Our World in Space
Robert McCall & Isaac Asimov
New York Graphic Society, 1974
MEM at Astronautix
Image credit: Robert McCall
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Ford Mars Lander
Manned Planetary Mission
Mars Colony
1969 Mars Mission
Mars Expedition 1969 at Astronautix
Image credit: NASA Lewis
Image source: National Archives
Surface Operations
Deimos Storyboard
Mission to Mars (Project Deimos)
- Hydrogen tanks jettison as ROMBUS spaceship accelerates from Earth-orbit;
- Two hydrogen tanks jettison after retro-thrust into Mars orbit. Mars Landing Module separates from ROMBUS parent above the cratered deserts;
- After soft-landing, astronauts begin exploration setting out research equipment and taking meteorological soundings;
- Ascent stage of Mars Landing Module returns astronauts to ROMBUS parent in Martian orbit for return to Earth.
Frontiers of Space
Philip Bono & Kenneth Gatland
Macmillan, 1969
Image credit: Douglas
Image source: SDASM Archives
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