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Concept of a NERVA II powered interplanetary vehicle capable of capture missions to Mars or Venus. Design is based on combination of standard single-engine propulsion modules. Three modules are lashed together for the Earth departure maneuver. Two additional modules are arranged in tandem, one for planet capture, the other for planet departure.
Image credit: Krafft Ehricke Papers
Image source: NASM
Image credit: Convair
Image source: SDASM Archives
Image credit: Convair
Image source: SDASM Archives
Image credit: Convair
Image source: SDASM Archives
Image credit: Convair
Image source: SDASM Archives
Image credit: Boeing
File source: NASA NTRS
Complex space vehicles from Earth in orbit around Mars some time in the late 70’s, as visualized by today’s engineers.
The Next Fifty Years in Space
by Erik Bergaust
Macmillan, 1964
Image credit: Rocketdyne
Image source: Numbers Station
