Project Horizon at Astronautix
Image credit: US Army
Image source: Project Horizon Reports, NASM
Lander & Crew Return Vehicle
Tag: moon lander
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
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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
Lunar Base by J.J. Olson
A combine of three lunar shelters provides adequate quarters for a construction of eighteen men. It will take many years to complete a major moon colony for 100 or more men-and women.
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
Saporito & Kramer
Assembly of The Moonships
Weightless in orbit 1,075 miles above earth, workers in space assemble three moon ships. Hawaiian Islands lie below. Winged transports unload near wheel-shaped space station top left. Engineers and equipment cluster around cargo ship lower left, passenger ship center and right.
Man on the Moon.
Collier’s, October 18,1952
Man Will Conquer Space Soon! at Wikipedia
Image credit: Colliers
Image source: AIAA Houston
Emergency!
- Inbound from space, a fast moving rocket ship noses down toward the earth, its crew alert – as always – for signs of danger. Disaster wont’ occur often on space, but rocketeers will be prepared: most of the paraphernalia shown in the cutaway sections of artist Fred Freeman’s picture is emergency equipment. To see how it is used, turn to Emergency!
- In emergency (as when broken porthole lets cabin pressure escape, as pictured), crew and passengers press buttons on chair arms; contour seats straighten automatically, capsules clap shut, seal. Capsules are connected to cabin pressure system, also have own pressure for bail-out. To abandon ship, men push another button. Capsules, guided by rails, are ejected by powder charge, drop safely into ocean with men inside. When possible, men will remain in ship, operating controls from within capsules, until they are close enough to earth to land normally.
- Emergency capsule is ejected from rocket ship with crewman inside, drops into sea. Speed is slowed by metal chute, impact is cushioned by small rocket in capsule base. The picture shows radar-equipped plane, rescue vessels converging on area to pick up crew members, two being slowed by rockets, and one (foreground) still so high rocket hasn’t blasted yet. Cutaway shows man in capsule, strapped to contour chair, with rocket and frozen under feet. Metal arms on base guide capsule during ejection.
How Man will Meet Emergency in Space Travel.
Collier’s, March 14, 1953
Man Will Conquer Space Soon! at Wikipedia
Image credit: Collier’s
Image source: AIAA Houston
Dewy Bay and Home
- At end of two-week-long lunar day, convoy of tractors, each pulling two of its three trailers moves cautiously across rough terrain near plain of Sinus Roria (Dewy Bay). Glare of mountain range to north is caused by setting sun. Remainder of scene is illuminated by greenish earth light.
- Seen from abandoned cargo ship with “full earth” shining i sky, passenger ships take off for return trip from moon to space station’s orbit.
More about Man on the Moon.
Collier’s, October 25, 1952
Man Will Conquer Space Soon! at Wikipedia
Image credit: Collier’s
Image source: AIAA Houston
Unloading on the Moon
The unloading on the moon. Twenty-four hours after landing, supplies have been stowed in caterpillar tractors. Hold of cargo ship (r.) is being lowered to ground in sections, to be used as prefabricated headquarters, Earth is at center; halo effect is caused by sun, hidden behind sphere of rocket ship at left. Diagonal streak in sky, the zodiacal light, is caused by sun’s ray reflecting from cosmic dust. The red star at left is Mars.
More about Man on the Moon.
Collier’s, October 25, 1952
Man Will Conquer Space Soon! at Wikipedia
Image credit: Collier’s
Image source: AIAA Houston
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